ProbateStudio Wisconsin

Create your Wisconsin probate forms, step by step.

For families, personal representatives, and Wisconsin probate professionals.

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For Wisconsin families, personal representatives, and probate professionals

Start your Wisconsin probate paperwork with step-by-step guidance.

ProbateStudio asks simple questions, helps you understand the likely Wisconsin probate path, organizes the information needed for court forms, and creates filing checklists for print or attorney eFiling workflows. You can start free during beta, use rough estimates, and review your answers before preparing documents.

Plain-English questions Wisconsin probate forms Filing checklist

Built for first-time users and probate professionals. Check the likely path, answer plain-English questions, prepare Wisconsin probate forms, and follow a filing checklist.

Start free during beta. No login or payment required to begin.

Beta package

Transfer by Affidavit Package

Free during beta

Answer starter questions and review whether a simpler Wisconsin transfer-by-affidavit path may be available.

Beta package

Informal Probate Forms Package

Free during beta

Prepare Wisconsin informal probate opening forms and filing handoff materials from your guided answers.

Free result

Case Summary Export

Only shared by user choice

Download a clean summary of your answers for your records or to review with a probate professional.

Free during beta

Start before deciding what you need

Answer the guided questions and save your progress in this browser.
Review missing information and workflow warnings before preparing documents.
See filing handoff guidance before downloading final materials.

This service provides general probate information and document automation for probate forms. It is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice.

Step 1

Let us get started.

Product plan

Build roadmap

Product direction

Responsive web app first, installable phone app later.

Build the public and attorney experience as a secure website that works well on phones. After the opening packet is reliable, add saved accounts, secure document links, reminders, inventory, accounting, and closing.

Current focus Opening packet MVP

Phase 1

Opening Packet MVP

Finish the small-estate router and informal probate opening workflow, then make packet decisions dependable.

Transfer by Affidavit MVP package and official PR-1831 template mapping.
PR-1801, PR-1803, PR-1804, PR-1805, PR-1806, PR-1807, PR-1808, PR-1810, PR-1817.
Waiver vs. PR-1805 logic.
Packet readiness review and filing handoff.

Phase 2

Production Platform

Move from a local prototype to a secure hosted app.

User accounts and saved cases.
Attorney, staff, PR, and public roles.
Secure storage, audit history, and form versioning.
Consent-based case summary export before any referral monetization.

Phase 3

Mobile and Sharing

Make the app practical for personal representatives and families on phones.

Mobile-first interview screens.
Secure email links instead of ordinary attachments.
Recipient access and reminder tracking.

Phase 4

Inventory and Accounting

Guide the PR through administration after letters issue.

PR-1811 asset wizard.
Claims and deadline tracking.
Estate account reconciliation.
Post-letters EIN and estate bank-account checklist.

Phase 5

Closing Workflow

Help the PR finish cleanly with receipts, releases, and final review.

Distribution and release tracking.
Closing checklist and final archive.
Attorney-review warnings for sensitive issues.

Next build sequence

What we should build next

Add and map the official Wisconsin PR-1831 Transfer by Affidavit template.
Review Transfer by Affidavit rules and attorney handoff/referral model with Wisconsin counsel.
Expand formal test scenarios for affidavit, blended-family, deceased-child, trust, charity, and missing-party cases.
Design the production data model for users, cases, parties, forms, tasks, documents, and audit events.
Prototype secure document delivery permissions before connecting real email.
Plan the post-letters EIN link and estate bank-account partner lane with clear sponsorship disclosures.

Start your Wisconsin probate paperwork with step-by-step guidance.

Continue your probate intake?

Transfer by Affidavit Package

Informal Probate Forms Package

Case Summary Export

Start before deciding what you need

Attorney tools are available in this local beta.

Let us get started.

Forms being prepared

Build roadmap

Responsive web app first, installable phone app later.

Opening Packet MVP

Production Platform

Mobile and Sharing

Inventory and Accounting

Closing Workflow

What we should build next

Admin and reviewer beta

Formal test scenarios

Review packet output before relying on forms

Launch checklist and disabled platform architecture

Eligibility snapshot

County/Court defaults

Decedent

Applicant and proposed personal representative

Applicant

Proposed PR

Using applicant contact details

Resident agent for nonresident PR

Will path

Decedent public benefits

People or organizations named in the will or codicil

Beneficiaries can be interested persons

Family and heirship facts

Person answering

Spouse or domestic partner

Children and descendants

Fallback relatives

120-hour survivorship

Spouse or former spouse

Interested persons

Suggested from your answers

Suggested interested persons

Opening path

PR-1803 waiver settings

PR-1804 notice to creditors

PR-1805 hearing and claim information

Filing checklist

Declaration of service

Court drafts

Draft appointment forms

Inventory

Inventory totals

Tasks and deadlines

Requested orders and preparer

Form completed by