Updated September 7, 2026. Quick answer: In Oklahoma, you have 3 months to contest a will that has already been admitted to probate, running from the will’s admission to probate (1 year after a minority or incapacity disability ends).
How long do you have to contest a will in Oklahoma?
| Deadline to contest an admitted will | 3 months |
| What starts the clock | the will’s admission to probate (1 year after a minority or incapacity disability ends) |
| Dedicated will-contest statute? | Yes |
“When a will has been admitted to probate, any person interested therein may at any time within three (3) months from the date the will was admitted to probate contest the same or the validity of the will…If no person, within three (3) months after the admission to probate of a will, contests the same or the validity thereof, the probate of the will is conclusive, saving to infants and persons of unsound mind, a period of one (1) year after their respective disabilities are removed.”
Source: 58 Okla. Stat. §§ 61, 67
What makes Oklahoma different
Oklahoma uniquely frames a contest as a newly-discovered-evidence remedy: the petition must be grounded in evidence discovered since probate, and only 4 enumerated grounds are allowed, rather than a general right to re-litigate validity. The controlling authority is 58 Okla. Stat. §§ 61, 67, and the window runs from the will’s admission to probate (1 year after a minority or incapacity disability ends).
What happens once this deadline passes?
Once the window above closes, Oklahoma’s probate of the will generally becomes final and binding on everyone who had the chance to object, subject only to the tolling or discovery exceptions described above; a separate objection Oklahoma allowed at the original probate hearing does not reopen or extend it.
Sources
| Statute / rule | 58 Okla. Stat. §§ 61, 67 |
| Oklahoma courts (general reference) | Oklahoma judicial branch |
| Oklahoma (additional reference) | Oklahoma.gov |
| Confidence | High |
Every statute or rule quoted on this Oklahoma page was read directly from the state’s own legislature/court/code site this session, or, where that site blocked automated access, from a reputable legal-citation mirror quoting the same official text with its official citation (disclosed below). General information, not legal advice; whether a specific contest is still timely can turn on facts (exactly when notice was given, how the will was probated, whether a disability applies) that only your own Oklahoma probate court file can confirm.