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Fiduciary Licensing Program

The Fiduciary Licensing Program (FID) is designed to help ensure Arizona's elderly and vulnerable citizens have licensed individuals or businesses managing their financial affairs, medical decisions and other vital matters. The Program involves professional licensed fiduciaries whose work usually involves the probate court system. Fiduciaries serve as court-appointed guardians, conservators, trustees, personal representatives, or special administrators. They may also serve as agents under a Power of Attorney or as a Trustee, with or without court oversight.

Attention Licensed Fiduciaries

The Certification and Licensing Division is redesigning its application portal with a new vendor, which is expected to provide a more user‑friendly experience for both licensees and staff. The development period will run from April through October of this year. During this time, licensees will not be able to file renewal applications.

As a result, our Chief Justice recently issued Administrative Order 2026‑38 (2026-38.pdf), which alters the renewal licensing window for 2026 only.

Accordingly, the Court has extended the expiration date for ALL current active and inactive licensed fiduciaries, as well as all licensed fiduciary businesses, to November 30, 2026.This means that any fiduciary license previously set to expire on May 31, 2026, will now remain valid until November 30, 2026.

Please note that continuing education requirements remain unchanged and must still be completed within the timeframes specified in ACJA § 7‑202.

Continuing Education

All applications submitted for the 2024-2026 renewal cycle period will undergo a random continuing education audit by Division staff. This audit will be conducted utilizing the older fiduciary continuing education polices that were in effect that compromised of twenty hours of continuing education being completed during the two-year renewal cycle period to include three stand alone hours in ethics. The fiduciary continuing education policies have also changed. These new changes will be in effect for the 2024-2026 renewal cycle. Please review the below listed Code provisions in detail to become familiarized with these changes.

ACJA 7-202(L)(2)(a):

All licensed fiduciaries must complete a minimum of 10 hours of approved continuing education during the 12-month period between each April 1 and March 31 of the following year for a total of no fewer than 20 hours of continuing education by no later than March 31 of every even-numbered year. The continuing education requirements do not apply to fiduciary entities. Of the 10 hours of continuing education each year, at least 1.5 hours each year must be devoted to ethics as provided in subsection (L)(4)(b)(11). Hours used to satisfy the ethics requirement may not also count against the remaining 7.5 hours of each year’s required continuing education hours. Excess continuing education hours completed in a year are not transferable to any year other than the one in which they were completed.

Contact Us   If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the Fiduciary Program at:   [email protected] (602) 452-3378 TTY/TTD: (602) 452-3545 Arizona Supreme Court Certification & Licensing Division 1501 W. Washington St. Suite 104 Phoenix, AZ 85007-3222