Colorado probate leads and inheritance data, by county.
If you are researching Colorado 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 1173 records a month across Colorado.
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Colorado counties
Browse 64 counties.Every Colorado county has its own page. Highlighted counties currently generate the largest monthly record volume.
How inherited property moves in Colorado
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
Colorado does not reassess real property when it changes hands. All real property is revalued on the statewide two year reassessment cycle regardless of who owns it (C.R.S. 39-1-104(10.2)), so an heir inherits the decedent's valuation and holding the house costs no more than it did before the death. Colorado collects no estate or inheritance tax either: the estate tax in Title 39 was measured by the federal state death tax credit, which federal law eliminated for deaths after December 31, 2004, and Legislative Council Staff report no collections since fiscal year 2013-14. What keeps inherited houses out of the courthouse is the beneficiary deed, C.R.S. 15-15-401 through 15-15-404, recorded before death and effective on death, which generates no probate filing at all.
Where probate records appear
District Court, which hears probate in 63 of Colorado's 64 counties; in the City and County of Denver probate is heard by the Denver Probate Court No free statewide name search of case records. The Judicial Branch does not provide online access to trial court case records and directs the public to three approved commercial vendors, all of which charge: LexisNexis Colorado Courts Record Search, Background Information Services and Tessera Data. The Branch's own free tools are limited to the Docket Search of scheduled hearings and the Sealed Case Search. Documents are not available from the vendors and must be requested from the court holding them.
Ways property can avoid ordinary probate
Beneficiary deed under C.R.S. 15-15-402, recorded with the county clerk and recorder before the owner's death; joint tenancy with right of survivorship; revocable living trust; and for personal property the C.R.S. 15-12-1201 affidavit.
Small-estate route
Collection of Personal Property by Affidavit under C.R.S. 15-12-1201, usable at least ten days after death when no personal representative has been appointed in Colorado or elsewhere. The ceiling is indexed to the decedent's year of death: $88,000 for 2026 deaths, $86,000 for 2025, $82,000 for 2024, $80,000 for 2023, $74,000 for 2022 and $70,000 for 2020 and 2021 (Judicial Branch form JDF 998, revised March 19, 2026). The affidavit is presented to whoever holds the property rather than filed with the court, and it cannot transfer real estate. Colorado also has a summary administrative procedure for estates consumed by allowances and priority expenses (C.R.S. 15-12-1203).
Timing investors should understand
The statutory floor is the creditor window. C.R.S. 15-12-801 requires the personal representative to publish notice to creditors at least three times, once during each of three successive calendar weeks, and the claim deadline stated in that notice may be no earlier than four months after first publication or one year after the date of death, whichever occurs first. C.R.S. 15-12-803 bars all pre-death claims one year after death whether or not notice was given. No probate or appointment proceeding may be commenced more than three years after death (C.R.S. 15-12-108). The court can take no action until 120 hours after death, and a creditor must wait at least 45 days before applying to open an estate (Colorado Judicial Branch, Open an Estate). Colorado publishes no official typical duration.
Colorado inheritance volume
Updated monthly · September 2026 edition.Newly inherited residential properties recorded in Colorado, from the same database that builds the lists. Published nationally in the Inheritance Property Index.
Biggest Colorado 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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