Arizona probate leads and inheritance data, by county.
If you are researching Arizona probate leads, the public court file is only one part of the inherited-property market. USLeadList starts with death and property records, typically about five weeks after death, and generates an average of 1394 records a month across Arizona.
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Arizona counties
Browse 15 counties.Every Arizona county has its own page. Highlighted counties currently generate the largest monthly record volume.
How inherited property moves in Arizona
Verified state rules behind the county data.Probate rules matter because they determine when a public court record appears and which inherited properties never appear in an ordinary probate case.
What changes for an heir
Arizona is a state where probate is easy to avoid. A beneficiary deed recorded during the owner's lifetime under A.R.S. 33-405 transfers real property to the named grantee beneficiary effective at death and stays revocable until then, so a house passing that way produces no probate filing at all. The small estate affidavits at A.R.S. 14-3971 now clear $200,000 of personal property and $300,000 of real property, both net of liens and encumbrances and the real property measured against assessor full cash value, after Laws 2025, chapter 24. Arizona imposes no estate or inheritance tax and does not reassess property on transfer to an heir, so there is no recurring cost that forces a sale. The practical consequence is that courthouse probate records miss a large share of inherited Arizona homes.
Where probate records appear
Superior Court Public Access to Court Case Information, the Arizona Judicial Branch statewide case lookup, supported by the eAccess portal for Superior Court records and by separate probate docket search pages published by the larger county Clerks of the Superior Court.
Ways property can avoid ordinary probate
Beneficiary deed under A.R.S. 33-405, recorded before death and revocable until then, together with the small estate affidavits under A.R.S. 14-3971 and revocable living trusts.
Small-estate route
Affidavit for collection of personal property where the value of all personal property in the estate, wherever located, less liens and encumbrances, does not exceed $200,000, usable 30 days after death (A.R.S. 14-3971(B)). Affidavit of succession to real property where the value of Arizona real property, less liens and encumbrances, does not exceed $300,000, usable 6 months after death, with the interest valued from the full cash value shown on the assessment rolls for the year in which the decedent died (A.R.S. 14-3971(E)). Both ceilings were raised from $75,000 and $100,000 by Laws 2025, chapter 24 (HB 2116), which took the general effective date of September 26, 2025. A separate affidavit collects up to $5,000 of wages owed by an employer with no waiting period.
Timing investors should understand
The personal representative publishes notice to creditors once a week for three successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, and creditors must present claims within 4 months after the date of first publication or be forever barred (A.R.S. 14-3801). A.R.S. 14-3803 bars a claim not presented within the earlier of the 14-3801 period or two years after the decedent's death plus the time remaining in a period commenced by actual or published notice. Nothing may be collected by small estate affidavit until 30 days after death for personal property or 6 months after death for real property (A.R.S. 14-3971). No Arizona court publishes a typical duration.
Arizona inheritance volume
Updated monthly · September 2026 edition.Newly inherited residential properties recorded in Arizona, from the same database that builds the lists. Published nationally in the Inheritance Property Index.
Biggest Arizona counties by volume
Free to cite with attribution: USLeadList Inheritance Property Index, September 2026 edition. See every state and download the data.
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