Title 45a, Title 45a: Probate Courts and Procedure

Secs. 45a-69 to 45a-73. Reserved for future use. PART V PROBATE COURT ADMINISTRATOR

Secs. 45a-6a to 45a-6k. Probate district of Eastford established. Probate district of Stafford established. Probate district of Mansfield established. Probate district of New Hartford established. Probate district of Woodbury established. Probate district of New Fairfield establi…

Sec. 45a-7. (Formerly Sec. 45-3). Where court held. A court of probate may be held in any town in the district or in any other location within the state if necessary to facilitate attendance by a party. (1949 Rev., S. 6812; P.A. 10-34, S. 2.) History: Sec. 45-3 transferred to Sec…

Sec. 45a-74. (Formerly Sec. 45-3a). Probate Court Administrator. Appointment and term. Service as a judge of probate. (a) There shall be a Probate Court Administrator who shall be appointed from among the judges of the several courts of probate by the Chief Justice of the Supreme…

Sec. 45a-75. (Formerly Sec. 45-29u). Probate Court Administrator, salary and benefits. (a) The Probate Court Administrator shall be paid by the Judicial Department and shall be compensated in the same manner and amount as a Superior Court judge as provided in section 51-47. For t…

Sec. 45a-76. (Formerly Sec. 45-4e). Biennial report by Probate Court Administrator. The Probate Court Administrator shall file with the Chief Court Administrator, on or before the first day of April of each even-numbered year, a report of the business of the Office of the Probate…

Sec. 45a-77. (Formerly Sec. 45-4d). Powers and duties of Probate Court Administrator. Regulations. Review of Probate Court procedures. Examination of Probate Court records and files. Training in diseases and disorders affecting judgment. Adoption of standards of practice for cour…

Sec. 45a-78. (Formerly Sec. 45-4f). Rules of procedure for the Probate Courts. Adoption, publication and sale. (a) The Probate Court Administrator shall, from time to time, recommend to the judges of the Supreme Court, for adoption and promulgation, uniform rules of procedure in …

Sec. 45a-79. (Formerly Sec. 45-4g). Probate judges and court employees to cooperate with administrator. The judges and employees of the various courts of probate, and the officers and employees of the Probate Assembly, shall cooperate with the Probate Court Administrator and shal…

Sec. 45a-79a. Probate Court Administrator's powers re deficiencies in court conduct or facilities. Hearings. Regulations. Appeals. (a) If the Probate Court Administrator determines that the business of a court of probate has not been conducted in accordance with law or the regula…

Sec. 45a-79b. Special assignment probate judges. (a) There shall be special assignment probate judges appointed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, on nomination by the Probate Court Administrator, from among the judges of probate elected as provided in section 45a-18. A n…

Sec. 45a-79c. Court of probate business hours. (a) A court of probate shall be open to the public for the conduct of court business not less than forty hours each week, Monday through Friday, excluding holidays, on a regular schedule between the hours of eight o'clock a.m. and fi…

Sec. 45a-7a. Probate Court to remit fees, expenses and income to State Treasurer to be credited to Probate Court Administration Fund. Exceptions. Escrow. (a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c) of this section, each Probate Court shall remit all fees, expenses and other…

Sec. 45a-8. (Formerly Sec. 45-12). Probate Court facilities. Allocation of expenses to towns. Minimum standards. Failure to provide suitable facilities. Consolidation, separation and creation of probate districts. (a) The town or towns comprising each probate district shall provi…

Sec. 45a-80. (Formerly Sec. 45-4a). Office space. (a) The Commissioner of Administrative Services shall provide such office space for the conduct of the duties of the Office of the Probate Court Administrator as the Probate Court Administrator approves. The expenses of the office…

Sec. 45a-81. (Formerly Sec. 45-4b). Assistants and clerical help for Probate Court Administrator. (a) Subject to the approval of the Chief Court Administrator, the Probate Court Administrator shall appoint and fix the compensation of assistants and clerical help necessary to enab…

Sec. 45a-82. (Formerly Sec. 45-4h). Probate Court Administration Fund. Transfers to retirement fund, General Fund and probate courts. Notice re sound actuarial basis of retirement fund. Annual accounting. (a) The Probate Court Administration Fund is established, to consist of the…

Sec. 45a-83. (Formerly Sec. 45-4i). Payment of expenses. Transfers from General Fund. If at any time the fund established under section 45a-82 is insufficient to pay the several charges to be paid from it, the Comptroller shall draw his order on the Treasurer for payment, from th…

Sec. 45a-84. Probate Court Administrator to prepare proposed budget annually. Review by Probate Assembly. Proposed final budget transmitted to Chief Court Administrator for approval. Requests and authorization re additional expenditures. Report re emergency expenditures. (a)(1) O…

Sec. 45a-85. Probate Court Budget Committee. Duties. Transfer and use of funds for Probate Court's office budget. (a) The Probate Court Administrator shall establish a Probate Court Budget Committee consisting of the Probate Court Administrator and two probate judges appointed by…

Secs. 45a-86 to 45a-89. Reserved for future use. PART VI PROBATE ASSEMBLY

Sec. 45a-8a. Regional Children's Probate Courts. (a) For the purposes of this section, “children's matters” means: (1) Guardianship matters under sections 45a-603 to 45a-625, inclusive; (2) termination of parental rights matters under sections 45a-706 to 45a-719, inclusive; (3) a…

Sec. 45a-8b. Extended family guardianship and assisted care pilot program. Regulations. (a) The Probate Court Administrator shall establish, within available appropriations, an extended family guardianship and assisted care pilot program in the Regional Children's Probate Court f…

Sec. 45a-8c. Truancy clinic. Administration. Policies and procedures. Report. (a) The Probate Court Administrator may, within available appropriations, establish a truancy clinic within (1) any Regional Children's Probate Court that serves a town designated as an alliance distric…

Sec. 45a-8d. Employment of a family specialist by a Probate Court or Regional Children's Probate Court. Duties of family specialist. (a) As used in this section, “family specialist” means a staff position established by the Probate Court Budget Committee under section 45a-85 to p…

Sec. 45a-9. (Formerly Sec. 45-13). Indexes. A general index shall be kept in each probate court of the records of all estates which have been or are pending, in which shall be entered the name of each such estate and the date and character of each proceeding in the court. (1949 R…

Sec. 45a-90. (Formerly Sec. 45-24). Connecticut Probate Assembly. Meetings. Powers and duties. (a) There shall be an assembly of the elected and qualified acting judges of the courts of probate, to be known as the Connecticut Probate Assembly, of which all judges of probate shall…

Sec. 45a-91. (Formerly Sec. 45-25). Officers and committees. The officers and committees of said assembly and their duties shall be such as may be provided for in its bylaws. Any vacancy occurring in any office shall be filled according to the provisions of the bylaws of said ass…

Sec. 45a-92. (Formerly Sec. 45-26). Payments to State Treasurer. (a) Payments to State Treasurer established. Each person who is a judge of probate at any time during any calendar year shall file with the Probate Court Administrator on or before April first of the succeeding year…

Sec. 45a-93. (Formerly Sec. 45-25a). Payments to probate judges who leave office or die while in office. Exceptions. (a)(1) If a judge of probate leaves office or dies while in office, the successor to such judge in said office shall pay to such judge or the personal representati…

Sec. 45a-94. (Formerly Sec. 45-25b). Temporary funding of probate court. Conditions. Term of loan. Interest. Section 45a-94 is repealed, effective January 5, 2011. (P.A. 87-187, S. 2, 3; P.A. 09-114, S. 25.)

Sec. 45a-95. Compensation of probate judges on and after January 5, 2011: Definitions. As used in this section and section 45a-95a: (1) “Band 1 probate district” means a probate district that has a population of less than forty thousand, except a probate district that has a popul…

Sec. 45a-95a. Compensation of probate judges on and after January 5, 2011. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this title concerning compensation for judges of probate, and subject to the provisions of subsections (b) and (c) of this section, for any calendar year, compensation …

Sec. 45a-9a. Access to data processing system or information stored in data processing system. Fee schedule. Any person seeking on-line access to any data processing system operated by the Office of the Probate Court Administrator, or seeking, in any other medium, information sto…