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For property that did not have a beneficiary designation or was not in a living trust, there may be "simplified probate" procedures or "small estate affidavit" procedures in Arizona for transferring certain kinds of property at death, which can avoid the cost and time of a full-blown court-supervised probate proceeding.
Arizona, like most states, does not impose an estate or inheritance tax. Only a few states do.
Although the federal bankruptcy code provides a list of exemptions, these exemptions are not available in Arizona. Arizona law requires you to use the exemptions found in state law -- not the U.S. bankruptcy code.
In Arizona, you can receive unemployment benefits for a maximum of 26 weeks under state law.
The minimum wage in Arizona is the same as the federal minimum wage: $7.25 an hour.
The minimum wage in Maricopa County is $7.25 an hour, the state minimum wage. However, cities and counties in Arizona are free to adopt their own higher minimum wage, and dozens of cities and counties across the country have done so. To find out whether Maricopa County has passed its own minimum wage law since we last updated, visit https://www.maricopa.gov/.
The minimum wage in Phoenix is currently $7.25 an hour, the state minimum wage. However, cities in Arizona are free to adopt their own higher minimum wage, and dozens of cities across the country have done so. To find out whether Phoenix has passed its own minimum wage law since we last updated, visit the city's website at https://www.phoenix.gov/.
In Arizona, your employer may pay you a minimum wage of $2.13 an hour, as long as you earn enough in tips to bring your total hourly pay up to the full minimum wage, $7.25 an hour. If you don’t earn enough in tips to bring your compensation to the full minimum wage, your employer must make up the difference.