Description

Frank25
New Franklin County Ohio Probate software.

Franklin County Ohio Probate software is your essential tool for preparing and submitting probate forms in compliance with the latest Franklin County Probate Court requirements. Fully updated for 2025, this new version simplifies the transition to mandatory e-filing and supports all new form updates released by the court.

Key Features

• All New and Updated Court Forms
  Includes new and modified form required for e-filing—including the standalone judgment entry forms because e-filing in Franklin County requires most applications and proposed entries be submitted on separate pages.
• Includes New Forms Introduced by the Court
  • Proposed Limited Letter of Authority
  • Request for Certified Copies
  • Notice of Presentation of Will
  • Notice of Permission to File in Paper Format
  • Waiver of Right to Reimbursement (Funeral/Burial Expenses)
  • Proposed Entry Approving Fiduciary’s Bond (a new consolidated version for convenience)
• Fully 64-Bit Compatible
  Optimized for 64-bit Windows and macOS systems for better performance and reliability.
• Modern Ribbon Interface
  Inspired by Microsoft Office, the new ribbon-style toolbar gives you a cleaner, more intuitive user experience—with more room to view and work with your forms.
• PDF Export & E-Submission Ready
  All forms can be saved in PDF format, ready to upload via the Probate Court’s new e-filing system.
• Probate AI Assistant
  One of our favorite new additions. It’s awesome! Ask it probate questions and get your answers instantly without spending hours researching. If you’re curious see our Demonstration Video.

$269? Is That Per Year Or What?

We’ve got some great news—that’s the complete price. You get free updates for the life of the program. What do we mean by “life of the program?” Here’s our update policy:

While we provide free updates and maintenance releases for many years—typically four to six—there eventually comes a point where continued support of the existing application is no longer practical. At that time, a new edition is introduced, and an upgrade fee applies.

We do not charge annual subscription fees, maintenance costs, or technical support fees during an application’s supported lifespan.

In the case of Franklin County Probate Forms, our users received free updates since 2015. That’s no misprint. To clarify, we’re not promising to provide free updates for 10 years, but if actions speak louder than words, that was the useful life of Frank25’s prior version.

Background

If your law office handles probate estates in Franklin County, you’ll be interested in this very special program. For almost 30 years, the all-Ohio version has been Ohio’s number one probate software. And although the all-Ohio version is county-generic, there are always forms that are modified for or unique to a specific county. For that reason, we’ve put together a new Franklin County version of our Basic Ohio Probate Forms application. We did more than simply add a couple forms; the Franklin County version is substantially rewritten to provide more ease of use, better worksheet printouts, and exquisitely printed forms. The complete list of forms is below.

Web Forms

Free Web Forms. The court’s web forms are tolerable for non-professionals trying to avoid employing an attorney, but if you’re a professional in the business of completing probate forms, this is a must-have app. If you’re curious about the advantages, click here.

Face-Lift

 Frank25 has a new look you’re going to like. We’ve studied the most successful new programs that are based on large-scale user studies. Take a look at the opening screen of our free demo or click here to see a screen illustration.

A Probate Processor

 No Learning Curve.  Frank25 is a stand-alone Windows application that follows standard Windows programming conventions. It is not a simple template, HotDocs or script, but instead is a true 64-bit Windows application, and likewise the Mac version is a native 64-bit macOS application. So, opening, saving and printing files is done just like it is in any other application. You won’t need to learn needlessly different or new ways to do the same old thing. Note the Mac version requires MS Word. The Windows version does not.

Notices, Consents & Waivers

Most probates involve the spouses, kin and legatees, so you’ll be happy to note that Frank25 does just that with the click of a mouse! If you have 20 beneficiaries, Frank25 completes all the notices, etc. with ease – one for each individual or entity that needs one. No work-arounds or cutting and pasting—just a couple mouse clips. See our new Demonstration Video.

More Than Just Probate Forms

Of course, Frank25 has a complete set of “Standard Probate Forms” for handling decedents’ estates. However, we also include non-probate forms for transferring real estate, stocks and bonds, motor vehicles, and enclosure letters for notifying next of kin and cashing life insurance policies, and more.

Feature Lineup

• Automatic continuation pages—this alone saves incalculable time. Inventories, accounts, notices, waivers and consents are all available in near-limitless depth.
•  Automatic Calculations—say goodbye to complicated inventories and accounts that don’t balance. Most forms complete themselves! Key forms like the Inventory and Accounting forms are 100% complete! Frank25 uses simple spreadsheet-style worksheets. This includes not just the mathematically oriented forms like the inventory and accounting forms, but also all consents, waivers and notices (with beneficiary names and addresses).
• Exports probate files to our U.S. Estate Tax application—a true single-entry system that saves large amounts of time on large estates.
• Infinitely modifiable—because you preview your work in Word (assuming you own it), your forms are extensively modifiable as word processing documents.
• Asset & Expense Worksheets can be sorted by any field.
• Multiple forms—if there are 40 kin, in 40 different states, and each needs a particular notice, you can prepare all 40 notices from the Kin Worksheet with simple mouse clicks.
• Saves and loads probate estates as ordinary word processing files. There’s no need to follow ridiculous procedures like saving each form or page individually. Your entire set of forms is saved and opened as you would expect—after all you don’t save each page of a word processing document individually, do you? Of course not, you save all the pages at one time.
• Print-Shop-Perfect Forms—lose the fill-in-the-blank look. All printing is done via carefully formatted word processing files. As a result, you’ll get professional-looking forms, unlimited formatting options, and more.
• PDF File Conversion, Emailing, Spell-Checking—all these functions and more are readily available and easily accessible as part of the preview/print process.
• No Internet Dependency—Internet down? That won’t stop you because you’re in business regardless of whether you’re connected.

Click here to try the free, fully functioning demo

List of Included Forms

If it’s useful, you’ll probably find it in the list below. Note that many of the probate forms come in multiple pages. An inventory for example can be up to 80 pages long, or you could send an individual Form 2.2 Notice to Probate to 80 different heirs!

Form 1.0	Surviving Spouse, Next of Kin, Legatees & Devisees
Form 1.0A	Order of Appraisement
Form 1.0S	Order of Sale/Return
Form 1.5RM	Certificate of Service
Form 1.A	Entry Approving Additional Bond
Form 1.B	Application to Reduce Bond
Form 1.C	Application for Fees
Form 1.CC	Consent to Attorney Fees
Form 1.D	Application for Continuance of Hearing
Form 1.E	Entry Setting Hearing
Form 1.F	Application to Extend Time
Form 1.L	Resignation of Fiduciary
Form 1.M	Application to Admit Foreign Records
Form 1.NM	Motion
Form 1.P	Request for Issuance of Summons in a Civil Action
Form 1.R2	Filing Information`
Form 1.S	Return of Certified Mail Service
Form 1.U	Claim of Witness Fee
Form 1.Y	Application to Reopen Estate to Report Newly Discovered Assets
Form 2.0	Application to Probate Will
Form 2.0A	Application to File Will for Record Only
Form 2.1	Waiver of Notice of Probate of Will
Form 2.2	Notice of Probate of Will
Form 2.2R	return Receipt for Notice of Probate of Will
Form 2.3	Entry Admitting Will
Form 2.4	Certificate of Service of Notice of Probate of Will
Form 2.D	Application to Place Will on Deposit
Form 3.0A	Application and Entry for Appointment of Appraiser
Form 3.0AE	Appraiser’s Evaluation
Form 3.0AP	Real Estate Appraisal
Form 3.0B	Application to Dispense with Appraisement
Form 4.0	Application for Authority to Administer
Form 4.0A	Fiduciary’s Acceptance
Form 4.0B	Application for Authority to Administer Estate Without Assistance …
Form 4.1	Supplemental Application for Ancillary Administration
Form 4.2	Fiduciary’s Bond
Form 4.2(A)	Memorandum for Bond
Form 4.3A	Waiver of Right to Administer
Form 4.4	Notice of Hearing on Appointment of Fiduciary
Form 4.5	Entry Appointing Fiduciary; Letters of Authority
Form 4.5A	Application to Amend Letters of Authority
Form 5.0	Application to Relieve Estate from Administration
Form 5.0A	Application to Dispense with Publication
Form 5.0B	Release from Administration Information
Form 5.0C	Attention No Administration Applicants
Form 5.0D	Application to Relieve Estate from Administration (Short Form)
Form 5.0E	Entry Relieving Estate from Administration (Short Form)
Form 5.0F	No Administration Statement of Knowledge
Form 5.0G	Notice to Hold Estate Open
Form 5.1	Assets and Liabilities of Estate to be Relieved
Form 5.1C	Application for Release of Asset(s) [Not to Exceed $200.00]
Form 5.2	Waiver of Notice of Application to Relieve Estate
Form 5.3	Notice of Application to Relieve Estate from Administration
Form 5.6A	Entry Relieving Estate from Administration (Long Form)
Form 5.6B	Entry Appointing Commissioner
Form 5.6C	Commissioner’s Findings
Form 5.6D	Commissioner’s Report of Distribution
Form 5.10	Application for Summary Release from Administration
Form 5.11	Entry Granting Summary Release from Administration
Form 6.0	Inventory and Appraisal
Form 6.1	Schedule of Assets
Form 6.2	Waiver of Notice on Hearing
Form 6.3	Notice of Hearing
Form 6.4A	Application for Appointment of a Commissioner to Report …
Form 6.4B	Report on Contents of Safe Deposit Box
Form 7.0	Notice to Administrator of Estate Recovery Program
Form 7.0A	Schedule of Claims
Form 7.0B	Statement in Lieu of Schedule of Claims
Form 7.1	Application for Family Allowance
Form 7.2	Application for Apportionment of Family Allowance
Form 8.0	Citation to Surviving Spouse to Elect Against Will
Form 8.1	Election of Surviving Spouse to Take Under Will
Form 8.2	Election of Surviving Spouse to Take Against Will
Form 8.3	Summary of General Rights of Surviving Spouse
Form 8.4	Certificate of Service & Notice of Citation to Surviving Spouse
Form 8.5	Return for Certificate of Service of Citation to Surviving Spouse
Form 8.6A	Waiver of Service by Surviving Spouse of the Citation to Elect
Form 9.0	Application to Sell Personal Property
Form 9.0C	Application for Transfer of Motor Vehicle (et al)
Form 9.1	Schedule of Personal Property for Sale
Form 9.2	Notice of Sale of Personal Property
Form 9.B	Report of Sale
Form 10.0	Application to Distribute in Kind
Form 10.1	Schedule of Property to be Distributed in Kind
Form 10.2	Notice of Hearing on Application to Distribute in Kind
Form 10.3	Entry Approving Distribution in Kind
Form 10.4A	Notice to Distributee
Form 10.D	Entry to Deposit Lost Heir Funds
Form 11.0A	Consent to Power to Sell Real Estate
Form 12.0	Application for Certificate of Transfer
Form 12.1	Certificate of Transfer
Form 13.0	Fiduciary’s Account
Form 13.0B	Statement in Lieu of Account
Form 13.1	Receipts and Disbursements
Form 13.2	Assets Remaining in Hands of Fiduciary
Form 13.4	Waiver of Partial Account
Form 13.5	Notice of Hearing on Account
Form 13.6	Certificate of Termination
Form 13.7a	Waiver of Notice of Hearing and Consent to Account
Form 13.8	Application to Extend Administration
Form 13.9	Certificate of Service of Account to Heirs or Beneficiaries
Form 13.10	Notice to Extend Administration
GenInfo	General Information Worksheet
	Judgment Entry Granting Attorney Fee
Miscellaneous Transfer Forms
BMV 3773	Surviving Spouse Vehicle Transfer Affidavit
	Real Estate Affidavit of Surviving Spouse or Joint Survivor
	Power of Attorney for Transferring Stock/Bonds/Debentures
	Affidavit of Domicile
Enclosure Letters
	Wills, notice and consents to probate will
	Accounting, waiver and consents
	Letters of authority; statement of duties
	To life insurance company enclosing policy
	Inventory and waiver of notice
	Instructions to appraiser
	Filing with Probate Court

 

Print Shop Perfect Probate Forms

Every form is fully formatted, picture-perfect and ready to file on paper or electronically as a PDF file. Strict compliance with the typographical specification set forth in Rules 51 and 52 of the Supreme Court Rules for Superintendence for Courts of Common Pleas assures acceptability in all Probate Courts.

No Repetition – Automated Forms

The main design principle of Frank25 is that you enter basic information only once.  Frank25 automatically completes the forms based on your single entry (i.e., decedent’s name, address, date of death; applicant or fiduciary’s name, address and telephone number; attorney’s name, address, telephone number and registration number; surviving spouse’s name, address and telephone number; all court information, county name, court title, presiding judge, etc.). Enter assets and liabilities once. Then simply direct the entries to the appropriate forms by pointing and clicking. That means you type lengthy real estate legal descriptions a single time.

Compatibility With U.S. Estate Tax for Windows

Frank25 is compatible with our U.S. Estate Tax (P706) software.  Frank25 files can be converted into nearly complete P706 files that you need only check over and then print. This, in itself, saves hours of time and reduces errors that may occur in the preparation of the estate tax return. The process is extremely easy. Simply mark an asset or debt to direct it to a particular schedule of the estate tax form. Our P706 application can open the file created by Frank25. It’s as easy as saving and opening a file!

User Friendly Prices

When you realize that other legal software (i.e., bankruptcy packages, probate software, office management systems, etc.) start at about $500 and up, you can appreciate the price-conscious value of Frank25. Like all the other software in the Puritas Springs Software legal library, we designed and priced Frank25 to give you maximum bang for the buck! No other legal software gives you the same specialized, comprehensive assistance so inexpensively. There are no annual or periodic maintenance costs or other fees. Upgrades are free until the release of the next major version. If the last 30 years is an indicator, that means you’ll be getting free updates for up to 5 or more years.