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

Sec. 45a-558b. Transfer authorized by will or trust. (a) A personal representative or trustee may make an irrevocable transfer pursuant to section 45a-558f to a custodian for the benefit of a minor as authorized in the governing will or trust. (b) If the testator or settlor has n…

Sec. 45a-558c. Other transfer by fiduciary. (a) Subject to subsection (c) of this section, a personal representative or trustee may make an irrevocable transfer to another adult or trust company as custodian for the benefit of a minor pursuant to section 45a-558f, in the absence …

Sec. 45a-558d. Transfer by obligor. (a) Subject to subsections (b) and (c) of this section, a person not subject to section 45a-558b or 45a-558c who holds property of or owes a liquidated debt to a minor not having a guardian may make an irrevocable transfer to a custodian for th…

Sec. 45a-558e. Receipt for custodial property. A written acknowledgment of delivery by a custodian constitutes a sufficient release and discharge for custodial property transferred to the custodian pursuant to sections 45a-557 to 45a-560b, inclusive. (P.A. 95-117, S. 9.)

Sec. 45a-558f. Creation and transfer of custodial property. Designation of initial custodian. Control. (a) Custodial property is created and a transfer is made whenever: (1) An uncertificated security or a certificated security in registered form is either: (A) Registered in the …

Sec. 45a-558g. Single guardianship. A transfer may be made for only one minor, and only one person may be the custodian. All custodial property held under sections 45a-557 to 45a-560b, inclusive, by the same custodian for the benefit of the same minor constitutes a single custodi…

Sec. 45a-558h. Validity and effect of transfer. (a) The validity of a transfer made in a manner prescribed in sections 45a-557 to 45a-560b, inclusive, is not affected by: (1) Failure of the transferor to comply with subsection (c) of section 45a-558f concerning possession and con…

Sec. 45a-558i. Care and control of custodial property. (a) A custodian shall: (1) Take control of custodial property; (2) register or record title to custodial property if appropriate; and (3) collect, hold, manage, invest and reinvest custodial property. (b) In dealing with cust…

Sec. 45a-558j. Powers of custodian. (a) A custodian, acting in a custodial capacity, has all the rights, powers and authority over custodial property that unmarried adult owners have over their own property including, to the extent applicable and consistent with sections 45a-557 …

Sec. 45a-558k. Use of custodial property. Distribution to a trust. (a) A custodian may deliver or pay to the minor or expend for the minor's benefit so much of the custodial property as the custodian considers advisable for the use and benefit of the minor, without court order an…

Sec. 45a-559. Custodian's expenses, compensation and bond. (a) A custodian is entitled to reimbursement from custodial property for reasonable expenses incurred in the performance of the custodian's duties. (b) Except for one who is a transferor under section 45a-558a, a custodia…

Sec. 45a-559a. Exemption of third party from liability. A third person in good faith and without court order may act on the instructions of or otherwise deal with any person purporting to make a transfer or purporting to act in the capacity of a custodian and, in the absence of k…

Sec. 45a-559b. Liability to third persons. (a) A claim based on (1) a contract entered into by a custodian acting in a custodial capacity, (2) an obligation arising from the ownership or control of custodial property, or (3) a tort committed during the custodianship, may be asser…

Sec. 45a-559c. Renunciation, resignation, death or removal of custodian. Designation of successor custodian. (a) A person nominated under section 45a-558 or designated under section 45a-558f as custodian may decline to serve by delivering a valid disclaimer to the person who made…

Sec. 45a-559d. Accounting by and determination of liability of custodian. (a) A minor who has attained the age of twelve years, the minor's guardian of the person or legal representative, an adult member of the minor's family, a transferor or a transferor's legal representative m…

Sec. 45a-559e. Termination of custodianship. The custodian shall transfer in an appropriate manner the custodial property to the minor, the legal representative of the minor or the personal representative of the minor's estate upon the earlier of (1) the minor's attainment of twe…

Sec. 45a-560. Applicability. The provisions of sections 45a-557 to 45a-560b, inclusive, shall apply to a transfer within the scope of section 45a-557b made after October 1, 1995, if: (1) The transfer purports to have been made under the Connecticut Uniform Gifts to Minors Act, se…

Sec. 45a-560a. Effect on existing custodianships. (a) Any transfer of custodial property as defined in sections 45a-557 to 45a-560b, inclusive, made before October 1, 1995, is validated notwithstanding that there was no specific authority in the Connecticut Uniform Gifts to Minor…

Sec. 45a-560b. Uniformity of application and construction. Sections 45a-557 to 45a-560b, inclusive, shall be applied and construed to effectuate their general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of sections 45a-557 to 45a-560b, inclusive, among states enac…

Sec. 45a-561. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 45a-562. (Formerly Sec. 45-69o). Power of attorney to survive disability or incompetence. Section 45a-562 is repealed, effective October 1, 2016. (P.A. 76-54, S. 1, 2; P.A. 78-44; P.A. 80-476, S. 183; P.A. 81-396, S. 1; P.A. 15-240, S. 57; P.A. 16-40, S. 9.)

Secs. 45a-563 to 45a-567. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 45a-568. (Formerly Sec. 45-120). Power of appointment may be released; definitions. (a) As used in sections 45a-568 to 45a-572, inclusive, (1) “power of appointment” includes all powers which are in substance and effect powers of appointment regardless of the language used i…

Sec. 45a-569. (Formerly Sec. 45-121). Method of release. Not valid as to land unless recorded. (a) A power releasable according to section 45a-568 may be released, wholly or partially, by the delivery of a written release executed by the donee of the power, for consideration or u…

Sec. 45a-570. (Formerly Sec. 45-122). Extent of release. A release executed by the donee of a power releasable according to section 45a-568, and delivered or filed in accordance with section 45a-569, shall be effective to release the power to the extent provided in such release. …

Sec. 45a-571. (Formerly Sec. 45-123). Effect of release of one donee upon other donees. If a power of appointment releasable according to section 45a-568 is or may be exercisable by two or more persons in conjunction with one another or successively, a release or disclaimer of th…

Sec. 45a-572. (Formerly Sec. 45-123a). Exercise in favor of further power. (a) Except to the extent otherwise expressly provided in the instrument creating the power, the donee of a power of appointment over any trust may appoint all or any part of the property subject to such po…

Sec. 45a-573. Exercise of power of appointment of property. The donee of a power to appoint property to anyone other than his estate shall not have the power to appoint property to himself, his estate, his creditors or the creditors of his estate, but may appoint to anyone not ex…

Sec. 45a-573a. Applicability of power of appointment of property. The provisions of section 45a-573 shall apply to all wills and trusts, regardless of the testator's date of death or the date the will or trust was executed, unless (1) the power of appointment expressly includes t…

Sec. 45a-573b. Liability of fiduciary, distributee or appointee re exercise of power of appointment of property. No fiduciary, no distributee of an estate nor any appointee shall be liable to any other person for any action taken or benefit received before October 1, 1992, which …

Secs. 45a-574 to 45a-577. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 45a-578. (Formerly Sec. 45-299). Construction of chapter. Definitions. (a) The provisions of sections 45a-578 to 45a-585, inclusive, shall be liberally construed to promote their underlying purpose and policy of readily permitting the disclaimer of interests. (b) As used in …

Sec. 45a-579. (Formerly Sec. 45-300). Disclaimer of property in decedent's estate. Time limitation. Effect of disclaimer. (a) An heir, next of kin, devisee, legatee, person succeeding to a disclaimed interest, beneficiary under a will, trustee, donee of a power of appointment gra…

Sec. 45a-580. (Formerly Sec. 45-303). Right to disclaim barred, when. Binding effect of disclaimer or waiver. (a) The right to disclaim an interest is barred by any: (1) Assignment, conveyance, encumbrance, pledge or transfer of the interest or any part thereof, (2) written waive…

Sec. 45a-581. (Formerly Sec. 45-304). Right to disclaim under other law. The provisions of sections 45a-578 to 45a-585, inclusive, shall not abridge the right of any person to assign, convey, release, renounce or disclaim under any other statute or under common law. The enactment…

Sec. 45a-582. (Formerly Sec. 45-305). Prior interests. An interest that exists on October 1, 1981, as to which, if a present interest, the time for delivering a disclaimer under subsections (3) and (35) of section 45a-234, subsections (4) and (19) of section 45a-235, and sections…

Sec. 45a-583. (Formerly Sec. 45-306). Disclaimer of property passing under nontestamentary instrument. Time limitation. Effect of disclaimer. (a) A grantee, donee, joint-tenant of personal property or real property, person succeeding to a disclaimed interest, beneficiary under a …

Sec. 45a-584. (Formerly Sec. 45-312). Taxation. Refund for overpayment. Any interest, rights or powers in property, real or personal, which have been duly disclaimed pursuant to the provisions of sections 45a-578 to 45a-585, inclusive, shall be subject to the tax imposed under ch…

Sec. 45a-585. (Formerly Sec. 45-311a). Disclaimers made on or after October 1, 1981. Validity of disclaimers made prior to October 1, 1981. The provisions of sections 45a-578 to 45a-584, inclusive, shall apply to disclaimers made on or after October 1, 1981, provided disclaimers …

Secs. 45a-586 to 45a-590. Reserved for future use.

Secs. 45a-591 and 45a-592. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 45a-593. (Formerly Sec. 45-58). United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs or successor to be a party in interest. Notice. (a) The United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs or the Secretary's successor, shall be a party in interest in any proceedings brought under any pro…

Sec. 45a-594. (Formerly Sec. 45-60). Compensation of guardian or conservator of social services beneficiary or veteran. (a) Compensation payable to the conservator or guardian of any person who is supported wholly or in part by the state in any humane institution, or who is recei…

Sec. 45a-595. (Formerly Sec. 45-59). Investment of funds in insurance and annuity contracts by conservator or guardian of estate. Upon application of a conservator or the guardian of the estate of a ward, conserved person or other incapable person, the Court of Probate may author…

Sec. 45a-596. (Formerly Sec. 45-51). Parental appointment of guardian or coguardian of minor upon death of parents. (a) The parent of an unmarried minor, except a parent who has been removed as guardian of the person of the minor, may by will or other writing signed by the parent…

Sec. 45a-597. (Formerly Sec. 45-60a). Payment by guardian or conservator of administration expenses of deceased person. (a) Upon the death of a person with respect to whose estate a guardian or conservator has been duly appointed by a Probate Court, has qualified and is acting as…

Sec. 45a-598. Parental visitation of protected adult. Any person who is the parent of an adult person with intellectual disability or a mental disability for whom a conservator of the person or guardian has been appointed may file a motion with the probate court having jurisdicti…

Sec. 45a-599. Transfer of guardianship file between Probate Courts. (a) On the petition of a party or on the court's own motion, a Probate Court may transfer a matter concerning the guardianship of the person of a minor under sections 45a-603 to 45a-625, inclusive, or termination…

Secs. 45a-600 to 45a-602. Reserved for future use. PART II* GUARDIANS OF THE PERSON OF A MINOR *Cited. 33 CA 673.

Sec. 45a-603. (Formerly Sec. 45-42). Residence of minor defined. For the purposes of sections 45a-132, 45a-593 to 45a-597, inclusive, 45a-603 to 45a-622, inclusive, and 45a-629 to 45a-638, inclusive, the residence of a minor means his or her actual residence and not that imputed …