State Probate Courts

Alabama
Alabama has 68 probate courts and 68 judges. The courts have jurisdiction over mental health, estate, adoption, and real property rights cases and do not allow jury trials.

• Alabama State Judicial Chart
• Alabama County Web Site Listings
  • Baldwin County Probate Court
  • Jefferson County Probate Court
  • Mobile County Probate Court
  • Montgomery County Probate Judgeship

Alaska
Alaska does not have a separate probate court. The Superior Court has jurisdiction over property rights, estate, mental health, and juvenile matters. The court allows jury trials in most cases.

• Alaska Trial Courts (Superior, District and Magistrate Cts.)

Arizona
Arizona does not have a separate probate court. The Superior Court has jurisdiction over estate,mental health, and juvenile matters.

• Arizona Superior Courts
  • Superior Court of Maricopa County Probate and Mental Health Department
• Elder Law/Probate (Arizona Supreme Court)

Arkansas
Arkansas does not have a separate probate court. The Circuit Court has jurisdiction over estate, mental health, and juvenile matters. The court allows jury trials.

• Arkansas Circuit Courts

California
California does not have a separate probate court. The Superior Court has jurisdiction over estate, mental health, and juvenile matters. The court does not allow jury trials for juvenile cases.

• California Superior Courts
• California Guardianship Probate Court

Colorado
Colorado has a separate probate court in Denver County only; in the rest of the state, district courts handle probate proceedings. Additionally, Colorado has a separate juvenile court.

• Colorado District Courts
• Denver Probate Court

Connecticut
Connecticut has a separate probate court with 130 judges. The court has jurisdiction over estate, adoption, support/custody, paternity, miscellaneous domestic relations, mental health, and miscellaneous civil cases. The court does not allow jury trials.

• Connecticut Probate Court