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The Connecticut Probate Court system is a system of 54 individual probate courts located throughout the state of Connecticut. The jurisdiction of each court extends to the legal affairs of the deceased, estates, some aspects of family law, conservatorship , and several other matters requiring specific legal decisions. [ 1 ]
Courts of Connecticut include: State courts of Connecticut. Connecticut Supreme Court [1] Connecticut Appellate Court [2] Connecticut Superior Court (13 districts) [3] Connecticut Probate Courts (54 districts) [4] Federal court located in Connecticut: United States District Court for the District of Connecticut [5]
The Connecticut Superior Court is the state trial court of general jurisdiction. It hears all matters other than those of original jurisdiction of the Probate Court, and hears appeals from the Probate Court. The Superior Court has 13 judicial districts which have at least one courthouse and one geographical area court.
Certificates of division began to fall into disuse as it became increasingly common for the circuit courts to sit with a single judge. [23] The Judiciary Act of 1869 (the "Circuit Judges Act") reduced the circuit-riding duties of the Supreme Court justices and therefore reduced the possibility for certificates of division. [24]
Without a beneficiary designation and even if you have a will, your individual account must go through probate — a court process that oversees how your assets are distributed after death.
A probate court (sometimes called a surrogate court) is a court that has competence in a jurisdiction to deal with matters of probate and the administration of estates. [1] In some jurisdictions, such courts may be referred to as orphans' courts [ 2 ] or courts of ordinary.
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In common law jurisdictions, probate is the judicial process whereby a will is "proved" in a court of law and accepted as a valid public document that is the true last testament of the deceased; or whereby, in the absence of a legal will, the estate is settled according to the laws of intestacy that apply in the jurisdiction where the deceased resided at the time of their death.