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

Sec. 45a-744. (Formerly Sec. 45-68b). Legislative policy. It is the policy of the state of Connecticut to make available to adopted and adoptable persons who are adults (1) information concerning their background and status; to give the same information to their adoptive parent o…

Sec. 45a-745. (Formerly Sec. 45a-68a). Adoption record. (a) For each final decree of adoption decreed by a court of probate, the clerk of the court shall prepare a record on a form prescribed by the Department of Public Health. The record shall include all facts necessary to loca…

Sec. 45a-746. (Formerly Sec. 45-68e). Information available to adoptive parents and adult adopted or adoptable person. (a) To the extent reasonably available, the following information concerning the biological parents of any adopted or adoptable person shall be recorded by the c…

Sec. 45a-747. (Formerly Sec. 45-68f). Information regarding adoption completed before October 1, 1977. For any adoption completed before October 1, 1977, information in section 45a-746, if available, shall be given in writing to the adoptive parent or parents of an adopted person…

Sec. 45a-748. (Formerly Sec. 45-68g). Agency or department to make effort to obtain information. Each child-placing agency or the department shall be required to make a reasonable effort to obtain the information provided for in section 45a-746 for each child being placed for ado…

Sec. 45a-749. (Formerly Sec. 45-68h). Request for information. A person entitled to nonidentifying information under subsection (c) of section 45a-746 may request the information provided in said section by applying in person or in writing to the child-placing agency in this stat…

Sec. 45a-750. (Formerly Sec. 45-68i). Identifying information. (a) A certificate of birth registration or a certified copy of the certificate of birth shall be issued in accordance with subsection (c) of section 7-51 or section 7-52 to any adoptable person by the Department of Pu…

Sec. 45a-751. (Formerly Sec. 45-68j). Release of identifying information by child-placing agency or department. (a) Any authorized applicant may, by applying in person or in writing to the child-placing agency or department, request the release of information that identifies or w…

Sec. 45a-751a. Conditions re release of information. Counseling. (a) If the authorized applicant is a resident of this state and it appears that counseling is advisable with release of the information, the child-placing agency or department may request that such person appear for…

Sec. 45a-751b. Disclosure of identifying information. Consent required. Exception. (a) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, if parental rights were terminated on or after October 1, 1995, any information tending to identify the adult adopted or adoptable person, …

Sec. 45a-751c. Order directing issuance of uncertified copy of original birth certificate. On the petition of an authorized applicant, as defined in section 45a-743, the Probate Court or the Superior Court that finalized an adoption or appointed a guardian ad litem in accordance …

Sec. 45a-752. (Formerly Sec. 45-68k). Appeal to Probate Court. Advisory panel. Report. Hearing. Decision. Section 45a-762 is repealed, effective June 30, 2017. (P.A. 77-246, S. 8; P.A. 80-476, S. 167; P.A. 87-555, S. 10; P.A. 96-130, S. 32; P.A. 17-136, S. 23.)

Sec. 45a-753. (Formerly Sec. 45-68l). Obtaining consent of person whose identity is requested. Petition to court. (a) If a request is received pursuant to section 45a-751, the child-placing agency or department that has agreed to attempt to locate the person or persons whose iden…

Sec. 45a-754. (Formerly Sec. 45-68m). Records related to termination of parental rights, removal of parent as guardian, appointment of statutory parent, adoption matters, temporary guardianship and emancipation of minors. Confidentiality. Exceptions. (a) All records of cases rela…

Sec. 45a-755. (Formerly Sec. 45-68o). Registries. Filing of registration. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 45a-746 to 45a-754, inclusive, the department and each child-placing agency which was party to, or participated in, either applications for approval of adoptio…

Sec. 45a-756. (Formerly Sec. 45-68p). Agreement to release identifying information. Notification. Fee. If there is a match of consents whereby the registrants agree to the releasing of identifying information to each other, in accordance with section 45a-755, the child-placing ag…

Sec. 45a-757. (Formerly Sec. 45-68n). Records maintained on a permanent basis. Records kept or information received by courts of probate, Superior Court, the department, the Department of Public Health, agencies and the registrars of vital statistics, which contain or may contain…

Secs. 45a-758 to 45a-762. Reserved for future use. PART V ADOPTION REVIEW BOARD

Sec. 45a-763. (Formerly Sec. 45-69c). Adoption Review Board established. (a) An Adoption Review Board is established, to consist of the Commissioner of Children and Families or his designee, the Probate Court Administrator or his designee, and an officer of a child-placing agency…

Sec. 45a-764. (Formerly Sec. 45-69d). Powers of Adoption Review Board. Notice and hearing. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 45a-727, the Adoption Review Board may, upon application, notice and hearing as hereinafter provided, for cause shown that it is in the best in…

Sec. 45a-765. (Formerly Sec. 45-69e). Records to be confidential. All proceedings, documents, correspondence and findings by the board shall be returned to the probate court initiating the application and shall be confidential as required by section 45a-754. (P.A. 75-163, S. 3; P…

Secs. 45a-771 to 45a-776. (Formerly Secs. 45-69f to 45-69k). Child born as a result of artificial insemination legitimate. Definitions. A.I.D.; who may perform; consent required. Request and consent to be filed in Probate Court; confidentiality, status of child born as result of …

Sec. 45a-777. (Formerly Sec. 45-69l). Inheritance by child born as a result of assisted reproduction. (a) A child born as a result of assisted reproduction, as defined in section 46b-451, may inherit the estate of such child's legal parents and the relatives of such legal parents…

Sec. 45a-778. (Formerly Sec. 45-69m). Words of inheritance to apply to child conceived through A.I.D. (a) The words “child”, “children”, “issue”, “descendant”, “descendants”, “heir”, “heirs”, “unlawful heirs”, “grandchild” and “grandchildren”, when used in any will or trust instr…

Sec. 45a-779. (Formerly Sec. 45-69n). Status of child born as a result of assisted reproduction prior to October 1, 1975. Nothing in section 45a-777 or 45a-778 or this section shall be construed as a change or modification of the rights or status of children born before October 1…

Sec. 45a-785. Property rights of child of decedent conceived and born after death of decedent. Written document re posthumous conception of child. Probate Court jurisdiction. (a) For purposes of determining rights to property to be distributed upon the death of a decedent, a chil…

Sec. 45a-786. When fiduciary is personally chargeable for assets distributed to a beneficiary or heir. No fiduciary shall be personally chargeable for any assets that a fiduciary may have distributed to any beneficiary or heir when it is determined after the fiduciary made distri…

Sec. 45a-787. Liability of beneficiary. (a) Following final distribution of all assets known to a fiduciary, if an action is brought in the Superior Court by a child or on behalf of a child claiming rights to property under subsection (a) of section 45a-785, a beneficiary shall b…

Sec. 45a-788. Maximum liability of beneficiary. The maximum liability to which a beneficiary is subject under subsection (a) of section 45a-787 is the beneficiary's ratable obligation, in the proportion that the value of the assets passing to the beneficiary bears to the value of…