Connecticut General Statutes
Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure
Chapter 802b - Decedents' Estates:

Section 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...

Section 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...

Section 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...

Section 45a-283. (Formerly Sec. 45-163). - Executor to apply for probate of will. Penalty. - (a) Every person having knowledge of his designation in a...

Section 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,...

Section 45a-285. (Formerly Sec. 45-166). - Proof of will out of court. - Any or all of the attesting witnesses to any will...

Section 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...

Section 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...

Section 45a-288. (Formerly Sec. 45-171). - Recording of a will proved without this state. - (a) When a will conveying property situated in this state...

Section 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,...

Section 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...

Section 45a-291. (Formerly Sec. 45-189). - Executor to administer intestate part of an estate. - When a will which disposes of only a part of...

Section 45a-292. (Formerly Sec. 45-190). - Executor of an executor. - The executor of an executor shall not as such administer...

Section 45a-293. (Formerly Sec. 45-179). - Notice of devise or bequest to corporation. - Within thirty days after the admission to probate of any...

Section 45a-294. (Formerly Sec. 45-185). - Expenses of executor or administrator in will contest. - (a) The court of probate having jurisdiction of the testate...

Section 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...

Section 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...

Section 45a-297. (Formerly Sec. 45-188). - Procedure if will is found after partial settlement. - When it appears to any court of probate, during proceedings...

Section 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...

Section 45a-309. (Formerly Sec. 45-195a). - Finding of domicile. - (a) Upon the admission of any will to probate or...

Section 45a-315. (Formerly Sec. 45-249a). - “Fiduciary” defined. - As used in sections 45a-129, 45a-205, 45a-242 to 45a-244, inclusive,...

Section 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...

Section 45a-317. (Formerly Sec. 45-249d). - Powers and duties of temporary appointee. Removal. Account. - (a) The temporary administrator or officer appointed pursuant to the...

Section 45a-317a. - Appointment of estate examiner to obtain financial or medical information. - Any person interested in the estate of a deceased person...

Section 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 c... - (a)(1) Any person eighteen years of age or older, and...

Section 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...

Section 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,...

Section 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...

Section 45a-323. (Formerly Sec. 45-255). - Oyster grounds as personal property. - In the settlement of the estates of deceased persons and...

Section 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...

Section 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...

Section 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...

Section 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...

Section 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.,...

Section 45a-329. (Formerly Sec. 45-257c). - Settlement of estate on presumption of death. - (a) Any person who has been absent from his home...

Section 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...

Section 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...

Section 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...

Section 45a-333. (Formerly Sec. 45-260). - Payment of taxes due from estate. - Each trustee of the estate of an insolvent debtor or...

Section 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...

Section 45a-334a. - Access to decedent's electronic mail account. - Section 45a-334a is repealed, effective October 1, 2016. (P.A. 05-136,...

Section 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...

Section 45a-334c. - Definitions. - As used in sections 45a-334b to 45a-334s, inclusive: (1) “Account”...

Section 45a-334d. - Applicability. - (a) Sections 45a-334b to 45a-334s, inclusive, apply to: (1) A...

Section 45a-334e. - User direction for disclosure of digital assets. - (a) A user may use an online tool to direct...

Section 45a-334f. - Terms-of-service agreement. - (a) Sections 45a-334b to 45a-334s, inclusive, do not change or...

Section 45a-334g. - Procedure for disclosing digital assets. - (a) When disclosing digital assets of a user under sections...

Section 45a-334h. - Disclosure of content of electronic communications of deceased user. - If a deceased user consented to, or a court directs...

Section 45a-334i. - Disclosure of other digital assets of deceased user. - Unless the user prohibited disclosure of digital assets or the...

Section 45a-334j. - Disclosure of content of electronic communications of principal. - To the extent a power of attorney expressly grants an...

Section 45a-334k. - Disclosure of other digital assets of principal. - Unless otherwise ordered by the court, directed by the principal...

Section 45a-334l. - Disclosure of digital assets held in trust when trustee is original user. - Unless otherwise ordered by the court or provided in a...

Section 45a-334m. - Disclosure of contents of electronic communications held in trust when trustee is not original user. - Unless otherwise ordered by a court, directed by the user...

Section 45a-334n. - Disclosure of other digital assets held. - Unless otherwise ordered by the court, directed by the user...

Section 45a-334o. - Disclosure of digital assets to conservator of a conserved person. - (a) After an opportunity for a hearing in the manner...

Section 45a-334p. - Fiduciary duty and authority. - (a) The legal duties imposed on a fiduciary charged with...

Section 45a-334q. - Custodian compliance and immunity. - (a) Not later than sixty days after receipt of the...

Section 45a-334r. - Uniformity of application and construction. - In applying and construing this Connecticut Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access...

Section 45a-334s. - Relation of act to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act. - Sections 45a-334b to 45a-334r, inclusive, modify, limit or supersede the...

Section 45a-340. (Formerly Sec. 45-201a). - “Fiduciary” defined. - As used in sections 45a-340 to 45a-347, inclusive, “fiduciary” includes...

Section 45a-341. (Formerly Sec. 45-202). - Inventory to be filed. Property included in inventory. Appraisal. Time limits. Sale of personal property. Hearing. - (a)(1) An inventory of all the property of every deceased...

Section 45a-342. (Formerly Sec. 45-203). - Penalty for not filing inventory. - If any fiduciary fails to file in the court of...

Section 45a-343. (Formerly Sec. 45-203a). - Objections to inventory or appraisal. Notice and hearing. - (a) Any interested party may file with the probate court...

Section 45a-344. (Formerly Sec. 45-203b). - Notice to Commissioner of Revenue Services if estate not subject to succession or inheritance tax. - Section 45a-344 is repealed, effective January 1, 1998. (P.A. 80-476,...

Section 45a-345. (Formerly Sec. 45-202b). - Waiving of inventory filing requirement and filing with Commissioner of Revenue Services. - Any judge of probate is authorized to waive the requirements...

Section 45a-346. (Formerly Sec. 45-202a). - Appointment of court-appointed appraisers prohibited. - There shall be no court-appointed appraisers of any decedent's property....

Section 45a-347. (Formerly Sec. 45-203c). - Beneficiary designation exempt from laws governing transfer by will. - The designation in accordance with the terms of (1) an...

Section 45a-353. (Formerly Sec. 45-230b). - Definitions. - For the purposes of sections 45a-266, 45a-353 to 45a-384, inclusive,...

Section 45a-354. (Formerly Sec. 45-230c). - Notice to creditors. - (a) The Court of Probate shall cause newspaper notice to...

Section 45a-355. (Formerly Sec. 45-230d). - Notification to Departments of Administrative Services and Veterans Affairs. - The application for admission of a decedent's will to probate...

Section 45a-356. (Formerly Sec. 45-230e). - Effect of failure to present claim; exoneration of fiduciary. - (a) If any claim is not presented on or before...

Section 45a-357. (Formerly Sec. 45-230f). - Optional notice procedures; effect of failure to present claim; discretionary extension of time; exoneration. - (a) A fiduciary may at any time give notice to...

Section 45a-358. (Formerly Sec. 45-230g). - Form and verification of claims; presentation. - (a) Every claim shall be presented to the fiduciary in...

Section 45a-359. (Formerly Sec. 45-230h). - Unmatured, contingent or unliquidated claims. - (a) If, at the death of any person, there shall...

Section 45a-360. (Formerly Sec. 45-230i). - Allowance or rejection of claims. - (a) The fiduciary shall: (1) Give notice to a person...

Section 45a-361. (Formerly Sec. 45-230j). - Return and list of claims. - Within sixty days following the expiration of the one-hundred-fifty-day period...

Section 45a-362. (Formerly Sec. 45-230k). - Determination of claims presented if fiduciary dies, resigns or is removed. - A successor fiduciary may apply to the court of probate...

Section 45a-363. (Formerly Sec. 45-230l). - Suit against estate on rejected claim; time within which to commence suit or file application. - (a) No person who has presented a claim shall be...

Section 45a-364. (Formerly Sec. 45-230m). - Hearing on rejected claims by Probate Court. Referral of claim to probate magistrate or attorney probate referee for hearing. - (a) Whenever a claim has been rejected, in whole or...

Section 45a-365. (Formerly Sec. 45-230n). - Order of payment of claims, expenses and taxes. - Claims, expenses and taxes in the settlement of a decedent's...

Section 45a-366. (Formerly Sec. 45-230o). - Payment of funeral and last illness expenses of married person. - The funeral expenses and expenses of the last illness of...

Section 45a-367. (Formerly Sec. 45-230p). - Payment of claims of fiduciary. - A fiduciary shall not pay any personal claim of his...

Section 45a-368. (Formerly Sec. 45-230q). - Liability of beneficiaries. - (a) Subject to the provisions of sections 45a-369 to 45a-375,...

Section 45a-369. (Formerly Sec. 45-230r). - Order of liability; preferences. - (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (c) and (d)...

Section 45a-370. (Formerly Sec. 45-230s). - Maximum liability of beneficiary. - Except as otherwise provided in subsections (c) and (g) of...

Section 45a-371. (Formerly Sec. 45-230t). - Liability of beneficiary-fiduciary. - (a) As used in this section, “beneficiary-fiduciary” means either (1)...

Section 45a-372. (Formerly Sec. 45-230u). - Action not impaired by failure to present claim to fiduciary. Proper person to sue following final distribution. - (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of section...

Section 45a-373. (Formerly Sec. 45-230v). - Action against one or more beneficiaries. - An action may be brought against one or more of...

Section 45a-374. (Formerly Sec. 45-230w). - Title of bona fide purchaser from beneficiary protected. - The entry and filing of a judgment recovered against a...

Section 45a-375. (Formerly Sec. 45-230x). - Statutes of limitation; suspension. Maximum periods applicable to claims. After-accruing claims. - Claims shall be subject to the following provisions: (a) If...

Section 45a-376. (Formerly Sec. 45-230dd). - Determination of insolvency. - The Court of Probate shall cause a notice of the...

Section 45a-377. (Formerly Sec. 45-230ee). - Determination of insolvency after partial settlement. - When, during the settlement of the estate of a deceased...

Section 45a-378. (Formerly Sec. 45-230ff). - Notice to creditors. Presentation of claims; effect of failure to present claim. Discretionary extension of time. - (a) Within fourteen days after the determination of insolvency, the...

Section 45a-379. (Formerly Sec. 45-230gg). - Creditor having secured claim. Determination of value of security. - (a) If a creditor presenting a claim to the fiduciary...

Section 45a-380. (Formerly Sec. 45-230hh). - Fiduciary's report. Notice to creditors. Hearing. Appeal. - (a) As soon as practicable after the expiration of the...

Section 45a-381. (Formerly Sec. 45-230ii). - Estate found solvent after finding of insolvency. - When any estate of a deceased person in settlement as...

Section 45a-382. (Formerly Sec. 45-230jj). - Suits against insolvent estate prohibited; pending suits. - Except as provided by section 45a-380, no suit shall be...

Section 45a-383. (Formerly Sec. 45-230kk). - Settlement of estate without claims procedures. - When it appears to the Court of Probate that the...

Section 45a-384. (Formerly Sec. 45-230a). - Applicability. - The provisions of sections 45a-266 and 45a-353 to 45a-383, inclusive,...

Section 45a-390 to 45a-419. (Formerly Secs. 45-204a to 45-205, 45-207 to - “Fiduciary” defined; applicability of chapter. Claims to be in writing and sworn to if required. Order of payment of claims. Payment of funeral and last illness expenses of ma... - Sections 45a-390 to 45a-419, inclusive, are repealed, effective July 1,...

Section 45a-425. (Formerly Sec. 45-271a). - “Fiduciary” defined. - As used in sections 45a-425 to 45a-437, inclusive, and 45a-439...

Section 45a-426. (Formerly Sec. 45-271b). - Protection of legacies. - (a) All pecuniary legacies given in any will shall, if...

Section 45a-427. (Formerly Sec. 45-271c). - Sale of real property to pay legacies. - When the payment of a pecuniary legacy is charged, or...

Section 45a-428. (Formerly Sec. 45-271d). - Sale or mortgage of real property specifically devised. Procedures for solvent and insolvent estates. - (a) If the Court of Probate finds that the estate...

Section 45a-429. (Formerly Sec. 45-271e). - Contribution where estate is taken to pay debts. - When any estate bequeathed or devised to any person is...

Section 45a-430. (Formerly Sec. 45-271f). - When distributees to give security for contingent or future debts. - Each person to whom any part of an estate is...

Section 45a-431. (Formerly Sec. 45-272). - Distribution of estates. - (a) Court to ascertain heirs and distributees. The Court of...

Section 45a-432. (Formerly Sec. 45-284). - Distribution of estate, testate in part. - When part of an estate has been devised or bequeathed...

Section 45a-433. (Formerly Sec. 45-273). - Distribution of intestate estates. - (a) After payment of expenses and charges, an intestate estate...

Section 45a-434. (Formerly Sec. 45-272a). - Division of estate among joint devisees or legatees. - (a) When a testator orders an estate to be divided...

Section 45a-435. (Formerly Sec. 45-272b). - Personal property that may be set out to spouse from insolvent estate. - When the personal property of the deceased, exclusive of household...

Section 45a-436. (Formerly Sec. 45-273a). - Succession upon death of spouse. Statutory share. - (a) On the death of a spouse, the surviving spouse...

Section 45a-437. - Intestate succession. Distribution to spouse. - (a) If there is no will, or if any part...

Section 45a-438. (Formerly Sec. 45-274). - Distribution to children. Inheritance of child from or through parent. - (a) After distribution has been made of the intestate estate...

Section 45a-438a. (Formerly Sec. 45-275). - Distribution of intestate estate of minor. - Section 45a-438a is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7059; P.A. 80-476,...

Section 45a-438b. - Inheritance of parent from or through child. - Except as provided in section 45a-731, for the purposes of...

Section 45a-439. (Formerly Sec. 45-276). - Distribution when there are no children or representatives of them. - (a)(1) If there are no children or any legal representatives...

Section 45a-440. (Formerly Sec. 45-287). - Simultaneous death; disposition of property. - (a) When no sufficient evidence of survivorship. When the title...

Section 45a-440a. (Formerly Sec. 45-287a). - When deaths of husband and wife presumed simultaneous. - It shall be presumed that the deaths of husband and...

Section 45a-441. (Formerly Sec. 45-276a). - Death of devisee or legatee. - When a devisee or legatee, being a child, stepchild, grandchild,...

Section 45a-442. (Formerly Sec. 45-276b). - Lapsed devises of real property. - When a specific devise of real property in any will...

Section 45a-443. (Formerly Sec. 45-285). - Shares may be set out in real or personal property. - After the share or interest of the husband or wife...

Section 45a-444. (Formerly Sec. 45-282). - Distribution of real property held by different titles. - When different parcels of real property have descended to the...

Section 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...

Section 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...

Section 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. Ac... - (a)(1) A person finally adjudged guilty, either as the principal...

Section 45a-448. (Formerly Sec. 45-280). - Distribution of damages for causing death. - (a) All damages recovered for injuries resulting in death, which...

Section 45a-449. (Formerly Sec. 45-278). - Property due person residing outside United States. - When it appears that a legatee, distributee, cestui or beneficiary...

Section 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...

Section 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...

Section 45a-452. (Formerly Sec. 45-287b). - When property escheats to the state. Procedure. - When a probate court cannot identify or locate the person...

Section 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...

Section 45a-459. (Formerly Sec. 45-298b). - Application of chapter. - The provisions of sections 45a-458 to 45a-466, inclusive, shall apply...

Section 45a-460. (Formerly Sec. 45-298c). - Rebuttable presumptions. - In determining the applicability of the provisions of sections 45a-458...

Section 45a-461. (Formerly Sec. 45-298d). - Disposition of property at death. - Upon death of a married person, one-half of the property...

Section 45a-462. (Formerly Sec. 45-298e). - Perfection of title of surviving spouse. - If the title to any property to which sections 45a-458...

Section 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...

Section 45a-464. (Formerly Sec. 45-298g). - Security interest of purchaser for value or lender. - (a) If a surviving spouse has apparent title to property...

Section 45a-465. (Formerly Sec. 45-298h). - Creditor's rights. - Sections 45a-458 to 45a-466, inclusive, shall not (1) affect rights...

Section 45a-466. (Formerly Sec. 45-298i). - Rules of construction. - Sections 45a-458 to 45a-466, inclusive, shall be applied and construed...

Section 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...

Section 45a-468a. - Definitions. - As used in sections 45a-468 to 45a-468m, inclusive, and section...

Section 45a-468b. - Registration in beneficiary form: Sole or joint tenancy ownership. - Only individuals whose registration of a security shows sole ownership...

Section 45a-468c. - Registration in beneficiary form: Applicable law. - A security may be registered in beneficiary form if the...

Section 45a-468d. - Designation of beneficiary. - A security, whether evidenced by certificate or account, is registered...

Section 45a-468e. - Form of registration in beneficiary form. - Registration in beneficiary form may be shown by the words...

Section 45a-468f. - Effect of registration in beneficiary form. - The designation of a TOD beneficiary on a registration in...

Section 45a-468g. - Ownership on death of owner. - On death of a sole owner or the last to...

Section 45a-468h. - Protection of registering entity. - (a) A registering entity is not required to offer or...

Section 45a-468i. - Nontestamentary transfer on death. - (a) A transfer on death resulting from a registration in...

Section 45a-468j. - Terms, conditions and forms for registration. - A registering entity offering to accept registrations in beneficiary form...

Section 45a-468k. - Taxable transfer. - Whenever any security is registered in beneficiary form, the right...

Section 45a-468l. - Liability of beneficiary. - When any security registered in beneficiary form has been transferred...

Section 45a-468m. - Applicability. - Sections 45a-468 to 45a-468m, inclusive, and section 45a-369 apply to...

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Connecticut General Statutes Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure Chapter 802b - Decedents' Estates:

Connecticut General Statutes
Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure
Chapter 802b - Decedents' Estates: