How to fill out Colorado DR 2712

What a family uses when nobody went to court and nobody was ever appointed. Two pages: a set of sworn statements on the first, the vehicle and the notarial block on the second. The whole thing turns on a printed table of thresholds - the total fair market value of everything the decedent owned that passes by will or intestate succession, less liens and encumbrances, has to sit under the figure for the year of death.

Written against DR 2712 (04/30/26), issued under C.R.S. 15-12-1201. Two pages of sworn statements about a whole estate, filed to move one vehicle. If any of the four statements is not comfortably true, the route is letters of testamentary or administration from a court, which the department accepts instead.

Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank DR 2712 from the dmv.colorado.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today.

Step 1 · the form itself Blank DR 2712 — Affidavit for Collection of Personal Property Pursuant to Small Estate Proceeding PDF at dmv.colorado.gov · new tab

Filled in

What a completed one looks like

This is all 2 pages of the actual DR 2712, rendered from the PDF the Colorado Department of Revenue, Division of Motor Vehicles 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

Both pages of Colorado form DR 2712 filled in: Corrine J. Broadhurst of Alamosa County swearing as successor of Wendell A. Broadhurst to collect a 2012 Honda CR-V, vehicle identification number 2HKRM4H50CH623418, signed on 4 June 2026 and notarised by Nadine G. Escalante. — Page 1 of 2. The state and county, the successors, the deceased, and the printed table of thresholds by year of death.

Field by field

Every line, in the order you meet it

1
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State and County
Two boxes at the head of page one.
Watch out: The county here is where the affidavit is being sworn, which is normally where the successor lives rather than where the decedent did.
2
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Name of Successor, and Name of Deceased
Up to two successors, then the person who has died.
Watch out: The decedent's name should match the certificate of title. Where it does not - a maiden name, a middle initial - a statement of one and the same goes in as well.
3
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Check the threshold for the year of death
The printed table: 2026 is $88,000, 2025 is $86,000, 2024 is $82,000, 2023 is $80,000, 2022 is $74,000, 2021 and 2020 is $70,000.
Watch out: It is the whole estate, less liens and encumbrances, wherever the property is. A house takes almost any estate over the line straight away.
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The ten-day and no-representative statements
Two of the four printed sworn statements, and both are absolute.
Watch out: If anyone in the family has started a probate application anywhere, this route is closed - even if nothing has been granted yet.
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The vehicle on page two
Year, make, model and vehicle identification number.
Watch out: One vehicle per affidavit. Two cars in an estate means two of these, each sworn and each notarised separately.
6
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Sign in front of a notary
Two signature rows with dates, then the notarial block - county, state, date, signature, commission expiration and seal.
Watch out: Take the death certificate with you as well. It has to accompany the affidavit, and a notary asking what they are witnessing is a reasonable question.

At a glance

What goes where

On the form	What to put in it
State and County	Two boxes at the top, because this is a probate instrument rather than a motor vehicle one.
Name of Successor, twice	Two rules, so two successors can swear to it together.
Name of Deceased	One rule under them.
The threshold table	Year of death and figure, listed down the page: 2026 is $88,000, 2025 is $86,000, 2024 is $82,000, 2023 is $80,000, 2022 is $74,000, and 2021 and 2020 is $70,000.
The four sworn statements	That the signatories are successors of the deceased; that the estate is under the threshold; that at least ten days have elapsed since the date of death; and that no application or petition for appointment of a personal representative is pending or has been granted in any jurisdiction.
The entitlement statement	That the successors are entitled to the payment of any sums of money due and owing to the decedent, and all tangible personal property belonging to the decedent including the following described vehicle.
Year, Make, Model and VIN	The vehicle block on page two.
Two signature rows with dates	One for each successor named at the top.
The notarial block	Subscribed and affirmed, or sworn to, before a notary, with a county, a state, a day, a month, a year, a notary signature, a commission expiration date and a seal.
The line above the vehicle block	Death certificate must accompany small estate affidavit.

What gets this one rejected

•Filed inside ten days of the death. At least ten days must have elapsed and it is one of the four printed statements.
•Filed where a personal representative has been appointed anywhere. The affidavit swears that no application or petition is pending or has been granted in any jurisdiction.
•An estate over the threshold for the year of death. The table is printed on the form precisely so that nobody has to guess.
•No death certificate with it. The instruction sits immediately above the vehicle block on page one.
•Unnotarised. Unlike almost everything else in the Colorado set, this one has a seal block and needs it filled.
•Signed by somebody who is not a successor. The first sworn statement is that the signatories are successors of the deceased, and the notary is attesting to who signed.

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

•The threshold is the year of death, not this year. A death in 2022 is tested against $74,000 even where the affidavit is being sworn in 2026. The table gives six years for exactly that reason.
•It covers the whole estate, not the car. The value tested is all property owned by the decedent and subject to disposition by will or intestate succession, wherever that property is located, less liens and encumbrances.

Every line here was read off DR 2712 (04/30/26) itself — the PDF is here — and off the Colorado Department of Revenue, Division of Motor Vehicles pages. This is plain-language help with a form, not legal advice, and where our wording and the agency's differ, theirs governs.

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How to fill out Colorado DR 2712

What a completed one looks like

Every line, in the order you meet it

State and County

Name of Successor, and Name of Deceased

Check the threshold for the year of death

The ten-day and no-representative statements

The vehicle on page two

Sign in front of a notary

What goes where

What gets this one rejected

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

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