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

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 …

Secs. 45a-96 and 45a-97. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 45a-98. (Formerly Sec. 45-4). General powers. (a) Probate Courts in their respective districts shall have the power to (1) grant administration of intestate estates of persons who have died domiciled in their districts and of intestate estates of persons not domiciled in thi…

Sec. 45a-98a. Jurisdiction of Probate Court to determine title or rights or to construe instruments. Limitations. Affidavit of intent to claim jury trial, effect on Probate Court proceedings. (a) The Probate Court shall have jurisdiction under subdivision (3), (4) or (5) of subse…

Sec. 45a-98b. Power to issue order for disclosure of relevant medical information. In any proceeding before a court of probate, the court may issue an order for the disclosure of medical information relevant to the determination of the matter before the court. The order may requi…

Sec. 45a-98c. Authority of Probate Court to serve as passport acceptance agency. The judge of each Probate Court may elect to have the court serve as a passport acceptance agency in accordance with 22 USC 211a and 22 CFR 51.22. (P.A. 15-217, S. 25.) History: P.A. 15-217 effective…

Sec. 45a-98d. Probate Court authority to transfer or dismiss a petition, application or motion for lack of jurisdiction. Transfer of file. (a) If a Probate Court finds, after notice and hearing on any petition, application or motion, that the court does not have jurisdiction to h…

Sec. 45a-98e. State agency recognition and application of Probate Court order, denial or decree. To the extent permitted by federal law, each state agency that is a party to a Probate Court proceeding shall recognize and apply any order, denial or decree of a Probate Court, issue…

Sec. 45a-99. (Formerly Sec. 45-3b). Jurisdiction to grant change of name. Exceptions. Requirements re offenders required to register with Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection. Commissioner's standing to challenge change of name. (a) The courts of probate shall…

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…

Sec. 45a-199. (Formerly Sec. 45-21a). “Fiduciary” defined. As used in sections 45a-186c, 45a-202 to 45a-208, inclusive, and 45a-242 to 45a-244, inclusive, unless otherwise defined or unless otherwise required by the context, “fiduciary” includes an executor, administrator, truste…

Sec. 45a-200. (Formerly Sec. 45-195b). Fiduciary certificate effective for one year. A certificate of the appointment of a fiduciary issued by the clerk of the court shall be sufficient evidence of the authority and identity of such fiduciary for all purposes for one year after t…

Sec. 45a-201. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 45a-202. (Formerly Sec. 45-21). When payments by fiduciaries protected. (a) Any person, acting as a fiduciary as defined by section 45a-199 or in any other fiduciary capacity, who in good faith makes payments or delivers property or estate pursuant to the order of the court …

Sec. 45a-203. (Formerly Sec. 45-88). Investment of funds. (a) Investments permitted. Trust funds, received or held by trustees, unless otherwise provided in the instrument creating the trust, and funds received or held by guardians or conservators, (1) may be invested in such rea…

Sec. 45a-204. (Formerly Sec. 45-89). Investments may be maintained as received. Trust funds received by executors, trustees, guardians or conservators may be kept invested in the securities received by them, unless it is otherwise ordered by the Court of Probate or unless the ins…

Sec. 45a-205. (Formerly Sec. 45-259). Fiduciary powers re increase in capital stock assets of estate. Whenever any fiduciary holds shares of the stock of any corporation as assets of the estate in his charge and there is an increase of the capital stock of any such corporation, s…

Sec. 45a-206. (Formerly Sec. 45-191). Right of foreign corporation to be executor or trustee. Requirements. Bond. (a) Any foreign corporation authorized by its charter to act as executor or trustee in the state where it is chartered, and named as executor or trustee by any reside…

Sec. 45a-207. (Formerly Sec. 45-193). Investments held by foreign corporation as executor or trustee; use of nominee. (a) Except as otherwise provided by this section, all investments held, as executor or testamentary trustee of the estate of any resident of this state or of any …

Sec. 45a-208. (Formerly Sec. 45-100q). Authorization to deposit securities in clearing corporation. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any fiduciary, as defined in subsection (a) of section 45a-233 and subdivision (2) of section 36a-365, holding securities in its fid…

Sec. 45a-209. Investments in securities of open-end or closed-end management investment companies or investment trusts. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in addition to investments otherwise permitted, any trustee or fiduciary, including a banking institution acting…

Secs. 45a-210 to 45a-213. Reserved for future use. PART II PRINCIPAL AND INCOME ACT

Secs. 45a-214 to 45a-227. (Formerly Secs. 45-350 to 45-363). Principal and Income Act, generally. Sections 45a-214 to 45a-227, inclusive, are repealed, effective January 1, 2000. (P.A. 87-440, S. 1–14; P.A. 95-316, S. 2; P.A. 99-164, S. 35, 36.)

Secs. 45a-228 to 45a-232. Reserved for future use. PART III* FIDUCIARY POWERS ACT *Annotations to former chapter 780b: Cited. 178 C. 42; 215 C. 553.

Sec. 45a-233. (Formerly Sec. 45-100d). Construction of statutes in this part. (a) Definitions. As used in sections 45a-233 to 45a-236, inclusive, (1) the term “fiduciary” means the one or more executors or administrators c.t.a. or administrators c.t.a., d.b.n. of the estate of a …

Sec. 45a-234. (Formerly Sec. 45-100e). Powers. Powers. The following powers may be incorporated by reference as provided in sections 45a-233 and 45a-236: (1) Retain Original Property. To retain for such time as the fiduciary shall deem advisable any property, real, personal or mi…

Sec. 45a-235. (Formerly Sec. 45-100f). Additional powers. Additional Powers. Any one or more or all of the following additional powers or any portion thereof may be incorporated by reference, as provided in subsection (a) of section 45a-233, but only to the extent they are indivi…

Sec. 45a-236. (Formerly Sec. 45-100g). Short title: Fiduciary Powers Act. Sections 45a-233 to 45a-236, inclusive, shall be known as the “Fiduciary Powers Act”. Any unqualified reference thereto by name or words of similar import shall be deemed to include all the powers listed in…

Secs. 45a-237 to 45a-241. Reserved for future use. PART IV REMOVAL, RESIGNATION OR DEATH OF FIDUCIARY.APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR FIDUCIARY