There are two kinds of probate leads on the market, and they are not the same product.
Some services sell predictions: obituary scrapes and "pre-probate" lists that guess a property might be inherited someday. There is no case, no personal representative, and no legal process underway. You are contacting a grieving family with nothing but a hunch.
A probate filing is different. When someone files to open an estate, they are signalling they are ready to handle it. There is a court record, a person legally responsible for the assets, and in most cases a legal obligation to resolve the property. That is the difference between a name on a list and a seller in a process.
For 14 years, ProbateData has only sold the second kind.
We source filings directly from probate courts in each covered county, then enrich every case:
Deliver-plan members receive their county's new cases by email automatically. Prospect and Commercial members can also search and download from every county on the platform.
No. Every ProbateData lead is an actual court filing with a case number. Pre-probate lists predict that an estate might exist; we deliver estates that legally do.
139 counties across 25 states and D.C. The full list is published on our counties page and kept current.
New filings are processed and delivered to your inbox on an ongoing basis, and the platform archive is consistently updated every month.
Check the nearby covered counties first. Many members work a major metro county adjacent to their home base, and on Prospect and Commercial plans your downloads reach every covered county nationwide.