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Every source behind the Connecticut guide

3 primary records, quoted verbatim and checked against 12 named presence or absence conditions that must pass against the live government text. Open the record, read the words the publishing body actually used, and confirm the current rule for yourself.

Last full re-fetch September 15, 2026

What each source establishes

The Connecticut guide rests on the source-backed rules this site can verify for the state: which simplified procedure exists and what it limits, what the court charges, how the person administering the estate may be paid, and any statutory creditor-deadline gaps the related guide names rather than guesses through.Every published rule below is quoted in the publisher’s own words rather than summarised.

Simplified-procedure rule

C.G.S. § 45a-273

Connecticut General Assembly · 2026 Supplement · Verified August 9, 2026

If the aggregate value of a decedent's solely owned tangible and intangible personal property, excluding property that passes outside of probate by operation of law, does not exceed forty thousand dollars

What was published from this source

  • CT C.G.S. § 45a-273

Conditions checked against the live text

Each condition below must be found in the page as the publisher currently serves it. If any one of them stops matching, the build fails and the figure is withheld rather than published from memory.

  • threshold 40000 personal only
  • 30 day wait
  • section identity
  • section identity

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Court cost rule

C.G.S. § 45a-107

Connecticut General Assembly · Publisher states no currentness signal; manual session review required · Verified August 9, 2026

Basis for Computation Of Fees Total Fee 0 to $500 $25 $501 to $1,000 $50 $1,000 to $10,000 $50, plus 1% of all in excess of $1,000 $10,000 to $500,000 $150, plus .35% of all in excess of $10,000 $500,000 to $2,000,000 $1,865, plus .25% of all in excess of $500,000 $2,000,000 to $8,877,000 $5,615, plus .5% of all in excess of $2,000,000 $8,877,000 and over $40,000

What this means: Connecticut probate 'fees' under § 45a-107 are a graduated schedule computed on the basis for fees (greatest of the gross estate for succession/estate-tax and inventory figures) for decedents dying on or after July 1, 2016. It is a base-plus-marginal-rate schedule (each band adds a percentage of the amount in excess of the band floor), NOT a flat banded table, so it does not map cleanly to fixed/banded FilingFeeComponent kinds; the raw bands are captured for the integrator. Minimum fee $25 (or $150 where the basis is under $10,000 and a full estate is opened); statutory maximum $40,000.

What was published from this source

  • CT C.G.S. § 45a-107

Conditions checked against the live text

Each condition below must be found in the page as the publisher currently serves it. If any one of them stops matching, the build fails and the figure is withheld rather than published from memory.

  • graduated fee table
  • top band 40000 cap
  • section identity
  • section identity

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Executor compensation rule

Conn. Probate Court Rules of Procedure, Rule 39

Connecticut Probate Court · Publisher states no currentness signal; manual session review required · Verified August 9, 2026

Section 39.1 Fiduciary and attorney's fees (a) On motion of a fiduciary, the court may approve: (1) a proposed fee arrangement for the fiduciary or for the fiduciary's attorney before the fiduciary or attorney has rendered ser- vices; or (2) a proposed fee for services already rendered by the fiduciary or attorney.

What this means: Connecticut has NO statutory percentage schedule for fiduciary (executor/administrator) compensation — verified absent from C.G.S. chapters 801b, 802, and 802b. Compensation is 'reasonable' and is governed by Rule 39 (Section 39.1, 'Fiduciary and attorney's fees') of the Probate Court Rules of Procedure. The substantive body of Rule 39 in the official PDF is embedded as page images and does not extract to text, so only the rule's table-of-contents caption ('Rule 39') and section number ('39.1') are available as verbatim substrings; the reasonable-compensation characterization is drawn from the rule's title/scope plus the confirmed absence of any statutory schedule.

What was published from this source

  • CT Conn. Probate Court Rules of Procedure, Rule 39

Conditions checked against the live text

Each condition below must be found in the page as the publisher currently serves it. If any one of them stops matching, the build fails and the figure is withheld rather than published from memory.

  • rule 39.1 section identity
  • court approves fiduciary fee on motion
  • reasonableness is the standard applied
  • section identity

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Connecticut source decision map

How the Connecticut records fit together

The source record is most useful when each citation has a job. This map links the Connecticut procedure, cost, compensation, and deadline records to the decision each one can and cannot answer.

QuestionRecorded Connecticut answerCarry into the case
What route is being screened?Settlement of small estates (affidavit in lieu of administration)Confirm that the will, prior appointment, family facts, and asset titles fit this route.
What property and basis count?personal probate property only; gross value for this route.Keep real property, liens, beneficiary transfers, and survivorship transfers classified separately.
What is the amount screen?$40,000Use the counted property, not a bank-balance shortcut.
What is the time or deadline record?30 days after death; No deadline is recorded here: Connecticut runs a notice-to-creditors period plus separate rules for failure to present and for allowance/rejection of claims; a single number would conflate the publication/notice trigger with the outer limit.Keep the event that starts each clock with the date; do not combine separate periods into one number.
What does the cost record establish?1 published schedule; the proceeding and value basis control the total.Ask the Probate Court about local surcharges, copies, publication, bond, and later filings.
What does compensation use?Connecticut has no statutory percentage schedule for fiduciary compensation; an executor or administrator is entitled to reasonable compensation, governed by Rule 39 (Section 39.1) of the Probate Court Rules of Procedure. The court reviews reasonableness rather than applying a fixed percentage. The relevant base is the estate accounting.Keep the will, task log, receipts, and accounting base together; extraordinary work is separate.

Decision boundary

What the Connecticut source set does not silently decide

The Connecticut records establish the rules listed above, but they do not turn a source citation into advice about title, family priority, tax filing, contested proceedings, or the exact clerk practice in every county. Those questions stay with the official court or a qualified adviser. The useful next step is to match the question to the citation rather than treating the longest quote as the answer to every estate problem.

Arithmetic illustration

See the Connecticut amount screen without mistaking it for a result

The recorded Connecticut ceiling is $40,000, and it is tested against personal probate property only, on a basis this site records as gross value for this route. Counted that way, $30,000 sits below the Connecticut figure and $50,000 sits above it. Both are comparisons to a published number rather than legal outcomes: two estates holding the same total can land on opposite sides of this line, because what Connecticut counts and how it values it are decided before the comparison is made.

Illustrative counted amountComparison to the Connecticut ceilingWhat it does not decide
$30,000Below $40,000Title, liens, waiting period, appointment, or creditor duties
$50,000Above $40,000Whether another statutory route or court process applies

Next evidence to collect

Open the quoted record for the row you rely on and check the publisher's current text before filing.

  1. Record the date of death, the county, and the exact proceeding or affidavit being considered.
  2. Classify each asset by title, beneficiary, trust, real-property status, and the value basis shown above.
  3. Open the official court material below and keep its form or schedule with the estate record.
  4. Do not distribute property until the route, creditor position, and required approvals are resolved.

Official material

Connecticut probate is heard in the Court of Probate (Probate Court). Form PC-212 is the statewide small-estate affidavit; the ctprobate.gov Fees & Calculators page implements the § 45a-107 schedule.

Source trail

Records used by this Connecticut map

What Connecticut courts publish

The statutes on this page state the rule. These are the documents the court itself publishes. Every link is probed before release, and any link that stops resolving fails the build rather than staying on the page.

Limits on court material

  • Connecticut probate is heard in the Court of Probate (Probate Court). Form PC-212 is the statewide small-estate affidavit; the ctprobate.gov Fees & Calculators page implements the § 45a-107 schedule.

Checking these Connecticut records against the publishers

Every citation above links to the body that publishes it, and every quoted sentence is reproduced exactly, so a text search on the publisher’s own page should land on it. Where the publisher’s current wording differs from what is recorded here, the publisher governs and this page is wrong; naming the citation and the language you see maps the difference onto a specific condition rather than a general complaint. The full procedure, including how a source qualifies in the first place and what disqualifies one, is set out once on the methodology page instead of being restated on each of the254 state records.

These records cover the cost and route questions this site answers for Connecticut. They do not cover intestate succession shares, spousal and family allowances, creditor priority, tax filing obligations, real-property transfer mechanics, or contested proceedings. Where an answer would require one of those, the site says so rather than estimating.

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