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

Sec. 45a-273. (Formerly Sec. 45-266). Settlement of small estates without probate of will or letters of administration. (a) If the aggregate value of a decedent's solely owned tangible and intangible personal property, excluding property that passes outside of probate by operatio…

Sec. 45a-274. (Formerly Sec. 45-266a). Payment of medical or health benefits. When any decedent is entitled to payment of medical benefits, federal or state, or insurance or health benefits or proceeds, or other intangible personal property owned by or payable to the decedent or …

Sec. 45a-275. (Formerly Sec. 45-266b). Applicability of statutes. Sections 45a-273 and 45a-274 shall apply only to estates of decedents for whom no will is presented for probate or no application for administration is filed within thirty days after death. (1967, P.A. 558, S. 51; …

Sec. 45a-276. (Formerly Sec. 45-266c). Comity recognition of foreign decrees. (a) The holder or registrant of any property, listed in section 45a-273, in this state of a nondomiciliary decedent, as a matter of comity, may recognize a like decree or other form of certification of …

Sec. 45a-277. Opening of deceased owner's safe deposit box to access jointly held stocks, bonds, annuities or certificates of deposit. Procedure. Hearing. Fee. (a) Whenever the sole owner of a safe deposit box dies and no probate proceedings have been instituted for the estate of…

Secs. 45a-278 to 45a-281. Reserved for future use. PART II PROBATE OF WILL

Sec. 45a-282. (Formerly Sec. 45-164). Custodian of will to deliver it after testator's death. Penalty. (a) Any person having in his possession any will or codicil shall, forthwith, after he has knowledge of the death of the testator, deliver such will either to the person designa…

Sec. 45a-283. (Formerly Sec. 45-163). Executor to apply for probate of will. Penalty. (a) Every person having knowledge of his designation in a will as an executor of a testator's estate shall, within thirty days next after the death of the testator, apply for probate of the will…

Sec. 45a-284. (Formerly Sec. 45-164a). Opening of safe deposit boxes to search for a will. Whenever the sole owner of a safe deposit box dies, his next of kin, spouse, or any person showing a sufficient interest in the presence of a will may apply to the Court of Probate for an o…

Sec. 45a-285. (Formerly Sec. 45-166). Proof of will out of court. Any or all of the attesting witnesses to any will may, at the request of the testator or, after his decease, at the request of the executor or any person interested under it, make and sign an affidavit before any o…

Sec. 45a-286. (Formerly Sec. 45-167). Hearing required before proving or rejecting a will. Notice. Any court of probate shall, before proving or disapproving any last will and testament, or codicil thereto, hold a hearing thereon, of which notice, either public or personal or bot…

Sec. 45a-287. (Formerly Sec. 45-170). Will of nonresident testator proved in this state. Application. Governing law. Tax. Determination of domicile. Costs for settlement of estate. (a) If the testator, at his death, was not domiciled in this state, his will may be proved in any d…

Sec. 45a-288. (Formerly Sec. 45-171). Recording of a will proved without this state. (a) When a will conveying property situated in this state has been proved and established out of this state by a court of competent jurisdiction, the executor of such will or any person intereste…

Sec. 45a-289. (Formerly Sec. 45-169). When bond required of executor. Amount of bond. Reduction of bond. (a) A probate bond shall be required of an executor, unless such bond is excused as provided by law. (b) If the will designates a person to be an executor and directs that no …

Sec. 45a-290. (Formerly Sec. 45-168). Administration with the will annexed and de bonis non. (a) If no person has been designated in a will to be executor, or if the person designated in the will to be executor has died or refuses to accept or is incapable of accepting such trust…

Sec. 45a-291. (Formerly Sec. 45-189). Executor to administer intestate part of an estate. When a will which disposes of only a part of the estate of the testator is admitted to probate, the executor of such will, or the administrator with the will annexed, shall, unless otherwise…

Sec. 45a-292. (Formerly Sec. 45-190). Executor of an executor. The executor of an executor shall not as such administer the estate of the first testator. (1949 Rev., S. 6978.) History: Sec. 45-190 transferred to Sec. 45a-292 in 1991. Annotation to former section 45-190: Cited. 70…

Sec. 45a-293. (Formerly Sec. 45-179). Notice of devise or bequest to corporation. Within thirty days after the admission to probate of any will containing a devise or bequest to any corporation or voluntary association, the judge, clerk or assistant clerk of the court of probate …

Sec. 45a-294. (Formerly Sec. 45-185). Expenses of executor or administrator in will contest. (a) The court of probate having jurisdiction of the testate estate of any person shall allow to the executor his just and reasonable expenses in defending the will of such person in the p…

Sec. 45a-295. (Formerly Sec. 45-186). Court may revoke, annul or set aside order or decree passed under revoked will. Subsequent settlement procedure. (a) When it appears to any Probate Court, pending proceedings before it for the settlement of the estate of a deceased person as …

Sec. 45a-296. (Formerly Sec. 45-187). Procedure if, on appeal, will is set aside after partial settlement. Effect on fiduciary. When a will is admitted to probate by a court of probate, and an appeal is taken from the probate of such will, the acts done in good faith by the execu…

Sec. 45a-297. (Formerly Sec. 45-188). Procedure if will is found after partial settlement. When it appears to any court of probate, during proceedings before it for the settlement of the estate of a deceased person as an intestate estate, that such deceased person left a will, th…

Secs. 45a-298 to 45a-302. Reserved for future use. PART III* GRANT OF ADMINISTRATION OF INTESTATE ESTATES *Annotation to former chapter 786: Cited. 153 C. 57.

Sec. 45a-303. (Formerly Sec. 45-195). Jurisdiction of intestate estates. Probate costs. Issuance of letters of administration. (a) Jurisdiction of intestate estates. Probate costs. (1) When any person domiciled in this state dies intestate, the court of probate in the district in…

Secs. 45a-304 to 45a-308. Reserved for future use. PART IV FINDING OF DOMICILE

Sec. 45a-309. (Formerly Sec. 45-195a). Finding of domicile. (a) Upon the admission of any will to probate or the appointment of an administrator of the estate of any deceased person, or the placing of a will on file under section 45a-288, the Court of Probate shall make a finding…

Secs. 45a-310 to 45a-314. Reserved for future use. PART V* SETTLEMENT OF DECEDENTS' ESTATES *Annotation to former chapter 793: Cited. 153 C. 57.

Sec. 45a-315. (Formerly Sec. 45-249a). “Fiduciary” defined. As used in sections 45a-129, 45a-205, 45a-242 to 45a-244, inclusive, 45a-273 to 45a-276, inclusive, 45a-315 to 45a-318, inclusive, and 45a-320 to 45a-334, inclusive, unless otherwise required by the context, “fiduciary” …

Sec. 45a-316. (Formerly Sec. 45-249c). Appointment of temporary administrator to hold and preserve estate. Whenever, upon the application of a creditor or other person interested in the estate of a deceased person, it is found by the court of probate having jurisdiction of the es…

Sec. 45a-317. (Formerly Sec. 45-249d). Powers and duties of temporary appointee. Removal. Account. (a) The temporary administrator or officer appointed pursuant to the provisions of section 45a-316 shall take immediate possession of all the real and personal property of the decea…

Sec. 45a-317a. Appointment of estate examiner to obtain financial or medical information. Any person interested in the estate of a deceased person and having a need to obtain financial information concerning the deceased person for the limited purpose of determining whether the e…

Sec. 45a-318. (Formerly Sec. 45-253). Document directing or designating individual to have custody and control of disposition of deceased person's body. Funeral director's or embalmer's reliance on document. Individuals entitled to custody and control of disposition. Revocation. …

Sec. 45a-319. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 45a-320. (Formerly Sec. 45-250). Allowance for support of surviving spouse and family. Family car. (a) The Court of Probate may allow out of any real or personal estate of a deceased person in settlement before such court, including a small estate being settled under the pro…

Sec. 45a-321. (Formerly Sec. 45-252). Custody of real property. Products and income of real property. Family may occupy homestead. (a) The fiduciary of a decedent's estate shall, during settlement, have the possession, care and control of the decedent's real property, and all the…

Sec. 45a-322. (Formerly Sec. 45-254). Death of owner of real property or oyster grounds to be recorded. Penalty. (a) The fiduciary of the estate of any deceased person who at the time of his death was the owner of any real property situated in this state or any interest in or mor…

Sec. 45a-323. (Formerly Sec. 45-255). Oyster grounds as personal property. In the settlement of the estates of deceased persons and insolvent debtors before any court in this state, the interest of any such estate in or to any oyster grounds or oysters planted and growing thereon…

Sec. 45a-324. (Formerly Sec. 45-255a). Power to sell real property as authorized by testator. When any testator has authorized or directed any real property to be sold by his executors and has appointed several executors, part or all of whom for any cause have failed to act or ha…

Sec. 45a-325. (Formerly Sec. 45-257). Execution of contract of decedent for sale of real property. The court of probate having jurisdiction of the settlement of the estate of any deceased person may, concurrently with courts of equity, authorize the fiduciary of the estate to con…

Sec. 45a-326. (Formerly Sec. 45-257a). Partition or sale of undivided interest in decedent's estate. Notice. Hearing. (a) During the settlement of the estate of any person who died owning an undivided interest in any property not specifically devised or bequeathed, the executor o…

Sec. 45a-327. (Formerly Sec. 45-257b). Sale of decedent's real property subject to mortgage. The Court of Probate shall not order the sale of any real property of a deceased person, when such real property has been conveyed or mortgaged by the heirs or devisees of the deceased pe…

Sec. 45a-328. (Formerly Sec. 45-256). Court may authorize stock and materials to be worked up or business to be continued. Section 45a-328 is repealed, effective October 1, 2018. (1949 Rev., S. 7039; P.A. 80-476, S. 305; P.A. 18-45, S. 21.)

Sec. 45a-329. (Formerly Sec. 45-257c). Settlement of estate on presumption of death. (a) Any person who has been absent from his home and unheard of for a period of seven or more years shall be presumed to be dead. (b) If such person left a will, it shall be presented for probate…

Sec. 45a-330. (Formerly Sec. 45-257d). Time limited for granting administration or proving will; exceptions. Except as provided in section 45a-242, administration of the estate of any person shall not be granted, nor shall the will of any person be admitted to probate, after ten …

Sec. 45a-331. (Formerly Sec. 45-257e). Settlement of estate after ten years. Closure of estate for dormancy. (a) Whenever for any cause the settlement of any decedent's estate after the appointment of a fiduciary has been delayed or not completed, the court of probate before whic…

Sec. 45a-332. (Formerly Sec. 45-257f). Notice to Commissioner of Revenue Services when estate may escheat. When an application is made to a court of probate to settle the estate of a decedent and it appears to the court that the estate may escheat to the state, the court shall ma…

Sec. 45a-333. (Formerly Sec. 45-260). Payment of taxes due from estate. Each trustee of the estate of an insolvent debtor or of any testamentary trust and each fiduciary of a decedent's estate shall ascertain from the collector of taxes of the town where such insolvent debtor res…

Sec. 45a-334. (Formerly Sec. 45-258). Lien of remainderman for repairs and improvements upon real property. Any person having any vested remainder interest in any real property in which any other person has a life interest, who has paid any money for necessary repairs or improvem…

Sec. 45a-334a. Access to decedent's electronic mail account. Section 45a-334a is repealed, effective October 1, 2016. (P.A. 05-136, S. 1; P.A. 16-145, S. 19.)

Sec. 45a-334b. Short title: Connecticut Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act. Sections 45a-334b to 45a-334s, inclusive, may be cited as the “Connecticut Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act”. (P.A. 16-145, S. 1.)