How a vehicle leaves an Arizona estate without a court ever being involved. The affidavit is sworn by the successor - the person entitled to the property by will or by intestate succession - and it stands in for probate as long as the estate is small enough and enough time has passed. It also carries the odometer disclosure, which is why it cannot simply be signed by whoever is clearing the house.
Written against 32-6901 (R04/25), issued under A.R.S. 14-3971.
Look at the face of the title before you fill anything in. If it reads OR between two names, this form is the wrong one and the survivor can simply sell the car. If it reads AND, this affidavit is the alternative to a probate that could take months.
Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank 32-6901 from the apps.azdot.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today.
This is the actual 32-6901, rendered from the PDF the Arizona Department of Transportation, Motor Vehicle Division publishes and completed end to end: letterhead, every field, and the blocks at the foot.
Amber — you write it
Grey — not yours to fill
Numbered — explained below
The odometer block sits in the middle of a sworn affidavit, which is unusual and deliberate: the person inheriting the car is the one certifying its mileage, because the person who could have is no longer able to.
Field by field
Every line, in the order you meet it
1
You fill this in
Owner Name
The person who died, named as the vehicle title records them.
Watch out: If the title carries a middle initial and the death certificate carries a full middle name, expect a One and the Same Certificate to be asked for as well.
2
You fill this in
Date of Death, County, State
From the death certificate.
Watch out: The date is what the thirty-day rule runs from, and it is the first thing checked. Signing early invalidates the affidavit rather than delaying it.
3
You fill this in
The six sworn statements
Pre-printed. Read them; you are swearing to all six.
Watch out: The one people trip over is the fourth. If a personal representative was appointed and never formally discharged, this affidavit is not available yet.
4
You fill this in
Vehicle Identification Number
One character per printed box, with the 5th, 10th and 17th positions marked above.
Watch out: Use the markers as a running check. A VIN that ends short of the last box has a character missing somewhere earlier.
5
You fill this in
Year, Make, Body Style, Plate Number
The vehicle as MVD holds it.
Watch out: The plate is still registered to the person who died. It comes off the car and is dealt with like any other plate a seller ends up holding.
6
You fill this in
Odometer Reading and the unit box
Whole miles, read off the car, with miles or kilometers ticked.
Watch out: Read it now rather than trusting a service record. The affiant is certifying it personally, and the certification sentence is directly underneath.
7
You fill this in
The two exception boxes
Only where the odometer has rolled over or the reading is not the actual mileage.
Watch out: On a car that sat for a year after a death, actual is usually the right answer. Nothing about an estate makes a reading unreliable.
8
You fill this in
Affiant Name, Signature and Date
The successor swears and signs.
Watch out: The affiant has to be the person entitled to the vehicle. A helpful relative signing on their behalf is not the same thing and is not accepted.
At a glance
What goes where
On the form
What to put in it
Owner Name (first, middle, last, suffix)
The person who died, as the title records them.
Date of Death, Place of Death County, State
Three fields in the Decedent Information band at the top.
The six sworn statements
That the person died more than 30 days before the affidavit; that the value of all the personal property in the estate, less liens and encumbrances, does not exceed $200,000; that the affiant is the successor entitled to the property; that no personal representative has been appointed, or that one has been discharged; that the decedent owned the vehicle described; and that the affiant is entitled to receive the property.
Vehicle Identification Number
In a boxed comb with the 5th, 10th and 17th characters marked.
Year, Make, Body Style, Plate Number
Then a Mobile Home Location line with city, state, ZIP and county for a mobile home.
The odometer band
A reading in whole miles, a miles or kilometers tick, and the two exception boxes - the federal disclosure, made by the affiant rather than by the owner who died.
The statutory reference
Printed above the signature: this affidavit is made pursuant to Section 14-3971, Arizona Revised Statutes as amended.
Affiant Name (first, middle, last, suffix), Affiant Signature, Date
One person swears it. The words above the statements are I being first duly sworn, on oath, depose and say.
What gets this one rejected
•Signing it inside thirty days. The first sworn statement is that the person died more than 30 days prior to the execution of this affidavit, and the affidavit is sworn.
•An estate over the threshold. The affidavit only works where the personal property, less liens and encumbrances, does not exceed $200,000.
•Using it while a probate is running. It cannot be sworn if an application or petition for the appointment of a personal representative is pending or has been granted and not discharged.
•Using it where a surviving co-owner exists. On an OR title, MVD's own note is that a Non-Probate Affidavit is not acceptable to transfer the deceased owner's interest when there is a surviving owner - the survivor simply signs.
•Leaving the odometer block empty on a vehicle that still needs a disclosure. ADOT requires any person completing a Non-Probate Affidavit to complete and sign the odometer statement on the form itself.
•Two successors, one affidavit. The form has a single affiant line, and the person who swears it is the person the vehicle passes to.
Rules that decide whether it is accepted
•The legal status word decides whether you need it at all. On an AND title the deceased owner's share has to be handled by probate or by this affidavit. On an OR title it does not, and on AND/OR the survivor signs alone with a death certificate.
•It is an oath, not a form. The wording is the language of a sworn statement, and the six numbered paragraphs are what is being sworn to.
•The vehicle is described twice over. A boxed VIN comb, then year, make, body style and plate - and, for a mobile home, a location with its county. MVD matches all of it against the record.
