What is the Notice to Creditors?

After of appointment, the personal representative must prepare a Notice to Creditors and cause it to be published once a week for three successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the probate Court is located.  The Notice to Creditors announces the appointment and address of the personal representative and notifies creditors of the estate to present their claims against the estate within four months after the date of the first publication of the notice or be forever barred.  A.R.S. § 14-3801.

A personal representative must give written notice by mail or other delivery to all known creditors, notifying the creditors of the personal representative’s appointment.  The notice must also notify all known creditors of the decedent to present the creditor’s claim within four months after the published notice, if notice is published in a newspaper or within sixty days after the mailing or other delivery of the notice, whichever is later, or be forever barred.