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

Sec. 45a-445. (Formerly Sec. 45-283). Distribution of proceeds of deceased minor's real property. The proceeds of the real property of any minor sold under an order or decree of any court empowered to order such sale and any investment of such proceeds which have not been expende…

Sec. 45a-446. (Formerly Sec. 45-277). Distribution when heir, legatee or distributee is presumed to be dead. Liability of fiduciary. (a) If, at any hearing before a court of probate on an application for an order for the distribution of the estate or for the payment of legacies p…

Sec. 45a-447. (Formerly Sec. 45-279). Person adjudged guilty of certain crimes or found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect ineligible to inherit from or receive property or insurance or annuity proceeds as beneficiary of victim. Action in Superior Court re guilt. Pe…

Sec. 45a-448. (Formerly Sec. 45-280). Distribution of damages for causing death. (a) All damages recovered for injuries resulting in death, which death occurred before October 1, 1961, after payment of the costs and expenses of suit, all expenses of last illness and all funeral b…

Sec. 45a-449. (Formerly Sec. 45-278). Property due person residing outside United States. When it appears that a legatee, distributee, cestui or beneficiary not residing within the territorial limits of the United States of America or any territory or possession thereof would not…

Sec. 45a-450. (Formerly Sec. 45-286). Descent or distribution of real property to be recorded. (a) When the real property of any deceased person, or any part thereof or interest therein, is devised or distributed or set out to the devisee or devisees, heir or heirs or spouse of s…

Sec. 45a-451. (Formerly Sec. 45-286a). Securing of interest of remainderman in personal property after life estate. When a life estate in any personal property is given by will to one with remainder to another, and there is no trustee named for such property during the continuanc…

Sec. 45a-452. (Formerly Sec. 45-287b). When property escheats to the state. Procedure. When a probate court cannot identify or locate the person entitled to a distribution of property from an estate or trust being administered by it, or when a probate court determines that no per…

Secs. 45a-453 to 45a-457. Reserved for future use. PART X CONNECTICUT UNIFORM DISPOSITIONOF COMMUNITY PROPERTY RIGHTS AT DEATH ACT

Sec. 45a-458. (Formerly Sec. 45-298a). Short title: Connecticut Uniform Disposition of Community Property Rights at Death Act. Sections 45a-458 to 45a-466, inclusive, may be cited as the “Connecticut Uniform Disposition of Community Property Rights at Death Act”. (P.A. 85-340, S.…

Sec. 45a-459. (Formerly Sec. 45-298b). Application of chapter. The provisions of sections 45a-458 to 45a-466, inclusive, shall apply to the disposition at death of the following property acquired by a married person: (1) All personal property, wherever situated: (A) Which was acq…

Sec. 45a-460. (Formerly Sec. 45-298c). Rebuttable presumptions. In determining the applicability of the provisions of sections 45a-458 to 45a-466, inclusive, to specific property, the following rebuttable presumptions apply: (1) Property acquired during marriage by a spouse of th…

Sec. 45a-461. (Formerly Sec. 45-298d). Disposition of property at death. Upon death of a married person, one-half of the property to which sections 45a-458 to 45a-466, inclusive, apply is the property of the surviving spouse and is not subject to testamentary disposition by the d…

Sec. 45a-462. (Formerly Sec. 45-298e). Perfection of title of surviving spouse. If the title to any property to which sections 45a-458 to 45a-466, inclusive, apply was held by the decedent at the time of death, title to such property of the surviving spouse may be perfected by an…

Sec. 45a-463. (Formerly Sec. 45-298f). Perfection of title of personal representative, heir or devisee. If the title to any property to which sections 45a-458 to 45a-466, inclusive, apply is held by the surviving spouse at the time of the decedent's death, the personal representa…

Sec. 45a-464. (Formerly Sec. 45-298g). Security interest of purchaser for value or lender. (a) If a surviving spouse has apparent title to property to which sections 45a-458 to 45a-466, inclusive, apply, a purchaser for value or a lender taking a security interest in the property…

Sec. 45a-465. (Formerly Sec. 45-298h). Creditor's rights. Sections 45a-458 to 45a-466, inclusive, shall not (1) affect rights of creditors with respect to property to which said sections apply; (2) prevent married persons from severing or altering their interests in property to w…

Sec. 45a-466. (Formerly Sec. 45-298i). Rules of construction. Sections 45a-458 to 45a-466, inclusive, shall be applied and construed so as to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of said sections among those states which enact them. (P.A. 85-340, S. 9.) History: Sec. …

Sec. 45a-467. Reserved for future use. PART XI UNIFORM TRANSFER ON DEATHSECURITY REGISTRATION ACT

Sec. 45a-468. Short title: Uniform Transfer on Death Security Registration Act. Construction. (a) Sections 45a-468 to 45a-468m, inclusive, and section 45a-369 shall be known and may be cited as the Uniform Transfer on Death Security Registration Act. (b) Sections 45a-468 to 45a-4…

Sec. 45a-468a. Definitions. As used in sections 45a-468 to 45a-468m, inclusive, and section 45a-369, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) “Beneficiary form” means a registration of a security which indicates the present owner of the security and the intention of the owner r…

Sec. 45a-468b. Registration in beneficiary form: Sole or joint tenancy ownership. Only individuals whose registration of a security shows sole ownership by one individual or multiple ownership by two or more individuals with right of survivorship, rather than as tenants in common…

Sec. 45a-468c. Registration in beneficiary form: Applicable law. A security may be registered in beneficiary form if the form is authorized by section 45a-468 to 45a-468m, inclusive, and section 45a-369 or a similar statutory provision of the state of organization of the issuer o…

Sec. 45a-468d. Designation of beneficiary. A security, whether evidenced by certificate or account, is registered in beneficiary form when the registration includes a designation of a beneficiary to take the ownership at the death of the owner or the deaths of all multiple owners…

Sec. 45a-468e. Form of registration in beneficiary form. Registration in beneficiary form may be shown by the words “transfer on death” or the abbreviation “TOD”, or by the words “pay on death” or the abbreviation “POD”, after the name of the registered owner and before the name …

Sec. 45a-468f. Effect of registration in beneficiary form. The designation of a TOD beneficiary on a registration in beneficiary form has no effect on ownership until the owner's death. A registration of a security in beneficiary form may be canceled or changed at any time by the…

Sec. 45a-468g. Ownership on death of owner. On death of a sole owner or the last to die of all multiple owners, ownership of securities registered in beneficiary form passes to the beneficiary or beneficiaries who survive all owners. On proof of death of all owners and compliance…

Sec. 45a-468h. Protection of registering entity. (a) A registering entity is not required to offer or to accept a request for security registration in beneficiary form. If a registration in beneficiary form is offered by a registering entity, the owner requesting registration in …

Sec. 45a-468i. Nontestamentary transfer on death. (a) A transfer on death resulting from a registration in beneficiary form is effective by reason of the contract regarding the registration between the owner and the registering entity and is not testamentary. (b) Sections 45a-468…

Sec. 45a-468j. Terms, conditions and forms for registration. A registering entity offering to accept registrations in beneficiary form may establish the terms and conditions under which it will receive requests (1) for registrations in beneficiary form, and (2) for implementation…

Sec. 45a-468k. Taxable transfer. Whenever any security is registered in beneficiary form, the right of any beneficiary to the immediate ownership of any such security shall be a taxable transfer for the purposes of chapter 216. (P.A. 97-42, S. 11.)

Sec. 45a-468l. Liability of beneficiary. When any security registered in beneficiary form has been transferred to a beneficiary of a deceased owner, any such beneficiary shall be liable to the personal representative of the deceased owner for securities so registered or their pro…

Sec. 45a-468m. Applicability. Sections 45a-468 to 45a-468m, inclusive, and section 45a-369 apply to registrations of securities in beneficiary form made before or after October 1, 1997, by decedents dying on or after October 1, 1997. (P.A. 97-42, S. 15.)

Sec. 45a-471.* (Formerly Sec. 45-213c). Trustee to receive proceeds of pension, retirement, death benefit and profit-sharing plans. (a) As used in this section, “proceeds” means the proceeds paid upon the death of any insured, employee or participant under any thrift plan or trus…

Sec. 45a-472. Trustee to receive proceeds of pension, retirement, death benefit and profit-sharing plans. (a) As used in this section, “proceeds” means the proceeds paid upon the death of any insured, employee, participant, or beneficiary under: Any thrift plan, savings plan, pen…

Sec. 45a-473. (Formerly Sec. 45-83). Bonds of testamentary trustees. Section 45a-473 is repealed, effective January 1, 2020. (1949 Rev., S. 6887; P.A. 80-227, S. 13, 24; 80-476, S. 213; P.A. 82-472, S. 162, 183; P.A. 19-137, S. 123.)

Sec. 45a-474. (Formerly Sec. 45-84). Vacancies in office of trustee. When a will, trust agreement or other instrument establishing a trust fails to provide for the contingency of the trustee's refusal to accept the trust or the trustee's resignation, death or incapacity, the Prob…

Sec. 45a-475. (Formerly Sec. 45-85). Filling of vacancy in town or county trusteeship. Duties of town's successor trustee. (a) Whenever the trustee of any trust for the use or benefit of any town or county or for the citizens of any town or county, as such, dies or becomes incapa…

Sec. 45a-476. (Formerly Sec. 45-86). Legal title vests in trustee appointed to fill vacancy. When the legal title to any property has vested in a trustee and the trusteeship has become vacant, such legal title shall vest in his successor immediately upon his appointment and quali…

Sec. 45a-477. (Formerly Sec. 45-90). Jurisdiction of Probate Court over trusts administered outside of this state. Any one or more of the beneficiaries of a trust that is administered outside of this state who are residents of this state may petition the Probate Court specified i…

Sec. 45a-478. (Formerly Sec. 45-87). Appointment of trustee when person has disappeared. Trustee's rights and duties. Procedure if person reappears. (a) When any person having property has disappeared so that after diligent search his whereabouts cannot be ascertained, the court …

Sec. 45a-479. (Formerly Sec. 45-92). Suspension of fiduciary powers during armed forces service. (a) When any fiduciary of any trust other than a testamentary trust is engaged in service in the armed forces, as defined in section 27-103, which prevents his giving the necessary at…

Sec. 45a-480. (Formerly Sec. 45-91). Income from property acquired by trustee by conveyance or foreclosure when mortgage formerly held by trustee. In any case in which a trustee holds a mortgage upon property for the benefit of one or more tenants for life or limited term, with r…

Sec. 45a-481. (Formerly Sec. 45-93). Distribution by testamentary trustee upon completion of trust. The trustee of any testamentary trust which has terminated may, unless the will creating the trust otherwise directs, after settling his final account, deliver the property remaini…

Sec. 45a-482. (Formerly Sec. 45-93a). Distribution of assets of inoperative trust. When the facts at the time of distribution from an estate to a trust or from a testamentary trust to a successive trust are such that no trust would be operative under the terms of the instrument c…

Sec. 45a-483. (Formerly Sec. 45-94). Settlement of trust estate when beneficiary has been absent seven years. The trustee of any trust for the benefit of any person who has been absent from his home and unheard of for seven years or more may settle his account as such trustee in …