If you have an attorney, that attorney will prepare the notice for your signature. If you are not represented by an attorney, type the decedent's name in the top line and on line 3 in the body of the notice exactly as it appears in the petition for probate. Type the name(s) of the persons who are asking to be appointed in the first line in the body of the notice and their addresses in the second line. Type the decedent's date of death in the third line. Do not type anything else in the body of the notice. The Probate Division staff will insert the dates.

All persons asking to be appointed as Personal Representative should sign the bottom of the notice and list their telephone numbers. The names of two District of Columbia newspapers must be inserted on the two lines on the bottom left. One of the newspapers must be a legal newspaper of general circulation.