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CT Gen Stat § 45a-462. (Formerly Sec. 45-298e) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 802b - Decedents' Estates|Section 45a-462. (Formerly Sec. 45-298e) - Perfection of title of surviving spouse.

 If the title to any property to which sections 45a-458 to 45a-466, inclusive, apply was held by the decedent at the time of death, title to such property of the surviving spouse may be perfected by an order of the Probate Court or by execution of an instrument by the personal representative or the heirs or devisees of the decedent with the approval of the Probate Court. Neither the personal representative nor the probate court in which the estate of the decedent is being administered has a duty to discover or attempt to discover whether property held by the decedent is property to which sections 45a-458 to 45a-466, inclusive, apply, unless a written demand is made by the surviving spouse or the spouse's successor in interest.(P.A. 85-340, S. 5.)History: Sec. 45-298e transferred to Sec. 45a-462 in 1991.
CT Gen Stat § 45a-463. (Formerly Sec. 45-298f) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 802b - Decedents' Estates|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 to 45a-466, inclusive, apply is held by the surviving spouse at the time of the decedent's death, the personal representative or an heir or devisee of the decedent may institute an action to perfect title to the property. The personal representative has no fiduciary duty to discover or attempt to discover whether any property held by the surviving spouse is property to which sections 45a-458 to 45a-466, inclusive, apply unless a written demand is made by an heir, devisee or creditor of the decedent.(P.A. 85-340, S. 6.)History: Sec. 45-298f transferred to Sec. 45a-463 in 1991.
CT Gen Stat § 45a-464. (Formerly Sec. 45-298g) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 802b - Decedents' Estates|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 to which sections 45a-458 to 45a-466, inclusive, apply, a purchaser for value or a lender taking a security interest in the property takes his interest in the property free of any rights of the personal representative or an heir or devisee of the decedent.(b) If a personal representative or an heir or devisee of the decedent has apparent title to property to which sections 45a-458 to 45a-466, inclusive, apply, a purchaser for value or a lender taking a security interest in the property takes his interest in the property free of any rights of the surviving spouse.(c) A purchaser for value or a lender shall not be required to inquire whether a vendor or borrower acted properly.(d) The proceeds of a sale or creation of a security interest shall be treated in the same manner as the property transferred to the purchaser for value or a lender.(P.A. 85-340, S. 7.)History: Sec. 45-298g transferred to Sec. 45a-464 in 1991.
CT Gen Stat § 45a-465. (Formerly Sec. 45-298h) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 802b - Decedents' Estates|Section 45a-465. (Formerly Sec. 45-298h) - Creditor's rights.

 Sections 45a-458 to 45a-466, inclusive, shall not (1) affect rights of creditors with respect to property to which said sections apply; (2) prevent married persons from severing or altering their interests in property to which said sections apply; or (3) authorize a person to dispose of property by will if it is held under limitations imposed by law preventing testamentary disposition by that person.(P.A. 85-340, S. 8.)History: Sec. 45-298h transferred to Sec. 45a-465 in 1991.
CT Gen Stat § 45a-466. (Formerly Sec. 45-298i) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 802b - Decedents' Estates|Section 45a-466. (Formerly Sec. 45-298i) - Rules of construction.

 Sections 45a-458 to 45a-466, inclusive, shall be applied and construed so as to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of said sections among those states which enact them.(P.A. 85-340, S. 9.)History: Sec. 45-298i transferred to Sec. 45a-466 in 1991.
CT Gen Stat § 45a-468 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 802b - Decedents' Estates|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 be known and may be cited as the Uniform Transfer on Death Security Registration Act.(b) Sections 45a-468 to 45a-468m, inclusive, and section 45a-369 shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes and policy and to make uniform the laws with respect to the subject of said sections among states enacting it.(c) Unless displaced by the particular provisions of sections 45a-468 to 45a-468m, inclusive, and section 45a-369, the principles of law and equity supplement their provisions.(P.A. 97-42, S. 14.)
CT Gen Stat § 45a-468a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 802b - Decedents' Estates|Section 45a-468a - Definitions.

 As used in sections 45a-468 to 45a-468m, inclusive, and section 45a-369, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Beneficiary form” means a registration of a security which indicates the present owner of the security and the intention of the owner regarding the person who will become the owner of the security upon the death of the owner.(2) “Devisee” means any person designated in a will to receive a disposition of real or personal property.(3) “Heir” means a person, including the surviving spouse, who is entitled under the statutes of intestate succession to the property of a decedent.(4) “Person” means an individual, a corporation, an organization, a trustee of an inter vivos trust or other legal entity.(5) “Personal representative” includes executor, administrator, successor personal representative, special administrator and persons who perform substantially the same function under the law governing their status.(6) “Property” includes both real and personal property or any interest therein and means anything that may be the subject of ownership.(7) “Register”, including its derivatives, means to issue a certificate showing the ownership of a certificated security or, in the case of an uncertificated security, to initiate or transfer an account showing ownership of securities.(8) “Registering entity” means a person who originates or transfers a security title by registration, and includes a broker maintaining security accounts for customers and a transfer agent or other person acting for or as an issuer of securities.(9) “Security” means a share, participation, or other interest in property, in a business or in an obligation of an enterprise or other issuer, and includes a certificated security, an uncertificated security and a security account.(10) “Security account” means (A) a reinvestment account associated with a security, a securities account with a broker, a cash balance in a brokerage account, cash, interest, earnings, or dividends earned or declared on a security in an account, a reinvestment account, or a brokerage account, whether or not credited to the account before the owner's death, or (B) a cash balance or other property held for or due to the owner of a security as a replacement for or product of an account security, whether or not credited to the account before the owner's death.(11) “State” includes any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and any territory or possession subject to the legislative authority of the United States.(P.A. 97-42, S. 1.)
CT Gen Stat § 45a-468b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 802b - Decedents' Estates|Section 45a-468b - Registration in beneficiary form: Sole or joint tenancy ownership.

 Only individuals whose registration of a security shows sole ownership by one individual or multiple ownership by two or more individuals with right of survivorship, rather than as tenants in common, may obtain registration in beneficiary form. Multiple owners of a security registered in beneficiary form hold as joint tenants with right of survivorship, as tenants by the entireties, or as owners of community property held in survivorship form and not as tenants in common.(P.A. 97-42, S. 2.)
CT Gen Stat § 45a-468c (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 802b - Decedents' Estates|Section 45a-468c - Registration in beneficiary form: Applicable law.

 A security may be registered in beneficiary form if the form is authorized by section 45a-468 to 45a-468m, inclusive, and section 45a-369 or a similar statutory provision of the state of organization of the issuer or registering entity, the location of the registering entity's principal office, the office of its transfer agent or its office making the registration, or by sections 45a-468 to 45a-468m, inclusive, and section 45a-369 or a similar statutory provision of the state listed as the owner's address at the time of registration. A registration governed by the law of a jurisdiction in which a similar statutory provision to sections 45a-468 to 45a-468m, inclusive, and section 45a-369 is not in force or was not in force when a registration in beneficiary form was made is nevertheless presumed to be valid and authorized as a matter of contract law.(P.A. 97-42, S. 3.)
CT Gen Stat § 45a-468d (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 802b - Decedents' Estates|Section 45a-468d - Designation of beneficiary.

 A security, whether evidenced by certificate or account, is registered in beneficiary form when the registration includes a designation of a beneficiary to take the ownership at the death of the owner or the deaths of all multiple owners.(P.A. 97-42, S. 4.)
CT Gen Stat § 45a-468e (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 802b - Decedents' Estates|Section 45a-468e - Form of registration in beneficiary form.

 Registration in beneficiary form may be shown by the words “transfer on death” or the abbreviation “TOD”, or by the words “pay on death” or the abbreviation “POD”, after the name of the registered owner and before the name of a beneficiary.(P.A. 97-42, S. 5.)
CT Gen Stat § 45a-468f (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 802b - Decedents' Estates|Section 45a-468f - Effect of registration in beneficiary form.

 The designation of a TOD beneficiary on a registration in beneficiary form has no effect on ownership until the owner's death. A registration of a security in beneficiary form may be canceled or changed at any time by the sole owner or all then surviving owners without the consent of the beneficiary.(P.A. 97-42, S. 6.)
CT Gen Stat § 45a-468g (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 802b - Decedents' Estates|Section 45a-468g - Ownership on death of owner.

 On death of a sole owner or the last to die of all multiple owners, ownership of securities registered in beneficiary form passes to the beneficiary or beneficiaries who survive all owners. On proof of death of all owners and compliance with any applicable requirements of the registering entity, a security registered in beneficiary form may be reregistered in the name of the beneficiary or beneficiaries who survived the death of all owners. Until division of the security after the death of all owners, multiple beneficiaries surviving the death of all owners hold their interests as tenants in common. If no beneficiary survives the death of all owners, the security belongs to the estate of the deceased sole owner or the estate of the last to die of all multiple owners.(P.A. 97-42, S. 7.)
CT Gen Stat § 45a-468h (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 802b - Decedents' Estates|Section 45a-468h - Protection of registering entity.

 (a) A registering entity is not required to offer or to accept a request for security registration in beneficiary form. If a registration in beneficiary form is offered by a registering entity, the owner requesting registration in beneficiary form assents to the protections given to the registering entity by sections 45a-468 to 45a-468m, inclusive, and section 45a-369. No registering entity shall accept a request from an owner of a security for registration in beneficiary form unless such request is in writing.(b) By accepting a request for registration of a security in beneficiary form, the registering entity agrees that the registration will be implemented on death of the deceased owner as provided in sections 45a-468 to 45a-468m, inclusive, and section 45a-369.(c) A registering entity is discharged from all claims to a security by the estate, creditors, heirs or devisees of a deceased owner if it registers a transfer of the security in accordance with section 45a-468g and does so in good faith reliance (1) on the registration, (2) on sections 45a-468 to 45a-468m, inclusive, and section 45a-369, and (3) on information provided to it by affidavit of the personal representative of the deceased owner, or by the surviving beneficiary or by the surviving beneficiary's representatives, or other information available to the registering entity. The protections of sections 45a-468 to 45a-468m, inclusive, and section 45a-369 do not extend to a reregistration or payment made after a registering entity has received written notice from any claimant to any interest in the security objecting to implementation of a registration in beneficiary form. No other notice or other information available to the registering entity affects its right to protection under said sections.(d) The protection provided by sections 45a-468 to 45a-468m, inclusive, and section 45a-369 to the registering entity of a security does not affect the rights of beneficiaries in disputes between themselves and other claimants to ownership of the security transferred or its value or proceeds.(P.A. 97-42, S. 8.)
CT Gen Stat § 45a-468i (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 802b - Decedents' Estates|Section 45a-468i - Nontestamentary transfer on death.

 (a) A transfer on death resulting from a registration in beneficiary form is effective by reason of the contract regarding the registration between the owner and the registering entity and is not testamentary.(b) Sections 45a-468 to 45a-468m, inclusive, and section 45a-369 do not limit the rights of creditors of security owners against beneficiaries and other transferees under other laws of this state.(P.A. 97-42, S. 9.)
CT Gen Stat § 45a-468j (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 802b - Decedents' Estates|Section 45a-468j - Terms, conditions and forms for registration.

 A registering entity offering to accept registrations in beneficiary form may establish the terms and conditions under which it will receive requests (1) for registrations in beneficiary form, and (2) for implementation of registrations in beneficiary form, including requests for cancellation of previously registered TOD beneficiary designations and requests for reregistration to effect a change of beneficiary. The terms and conditions so established may provide for proving death, avoiding or resolving any problems concerning fractional shares, designating primary and contingent beneficiaries, and substituting a named beneficiary's descendants to take in the place of the named beneficiary in the event of the beneficiary's death. Substitution may be indicated by appending to the name of the primary beneficiary the letters LDPS, standing for “lineal descendants per stirpes”. This designation substitutes a deceased beneficiary's descendants who survive the owner for a beneficiary who fails to so survive, the descendants to be identified and to share in accordance with the law of the beneficiary's domicile at the owner's death governing inheritance by descendants of an intestate. Other forms of identifying beneficiaries who are to take on one or more contingencies, and rules for providing proofs and assurances needed to satisfy reasonable concerns by registering entities regarding conditions and identities relevant to accurate implementation of registrations in beneficiary form, may be contained in a registering entity's terms and conditions.(P.A. 97-42, S. 10.)
CT Gen Stat § 45a-468k (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 802b - Decedents' Estates|Section 45a-468k - Taxable transfer.

 Whenever any security is registered in beneficiary form, the right of any beneficiary to the immediate ownership of any such security shall be a taxable transfer for the purposes of chapter 216.(P.A. 97-42, S. 11.)
CT Gen Stat § 45a-468l (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 802b - Decedents' Estates|Section 45a-468l - Liability of beneficiary.

 When any security registered in beneficiary form has been transferred to a beneficiary of a deceased owner, any such beneficiary shall be liable to the personal representative of the deceased owner for securities so registered or their proceeds pursuant to section 45a-368 for the payment of claims, taxes and expenses of administration against the estate of the decedent, to the extent such claims, taxes and expenses of administration remain unpaid after the application of the other assets of the deceased, provided such liability shall not exceed the value of any such security at the time of the death of the deceased owner divided by the number of beneficiaries.(P.A. 97-42, S. 12.)
CT Gen Stat § 45a-468m (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 802b - Decedents' Estates|Section 45a-468m - Applicability.

 Sections 45a-468 to 45a-468m, inclusive, and section 45a-369 apply to registrations of securities in beneficiary form made before or after October 1, 1997, by decedents dying on or after October 1, 1997.(P.A. 97-42, S. 15.)
CT Gen Stat § 45a-473. (Formerly Sec. 45-83) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 802c - Trusts|Section 45a-473. (Formerly Sec. 45-83) - Bonds of testamentary trustees.

 Section 45a-473 is repealed, effective January 1, 2020.(1949 Rev., S. 6887; P.A. 80-227, S. 13, 24; 80-476, S. 213; P.A. 82-472, S. 162, 183; P.A. 19-137, S. 123.)
CT Gen Stat § 45a-474. (Formerly Sec. 45-84) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 802c - Trusts|Section 45a-474. (Formerly Sec. 45-84) - Vacancies in office of trustee.

 When a will, trust agreement or other instrument establishing a trust fails to provide for the contingency of the trustee's refusal to accept the trust or the trustee's resignation, death or incapacity, the Probate Court specified in section 45a-499p may, on the happening of any such contingency, appoint some suitable person to fill such vacancy, taking from such suitable person a probate bond, unless in the case of a will it is otherwise provided therein. The court may appoint a successor trustee of an inter vivos trust before such contingency has occurred if the court finds that a vacancy in the office of trustee is likely to occur. The court shall specify the conditions that the successor trustee of such inter vivos trust must satisfy before becoming trustee. In the event of a vacancy in the office of trustee of such inter vivos trust, the successor trustee may assume the office immediately upon satisfying the conditions set forth in the court's order without further court action.(1949 Rev., S. 6888; P.A. 80-476, S. 214; P.A. 15-217, S. 26; P.A. 19-137, S. 114.)History: P.A. 80-476 rephrased provisions and substituted “proceeds” for “avails”; Sec. 45-84 transferred to Sec. 45a-474 in 1991; P.A. 15-217 restructured existing provisions re Probate Court authority to appoint successor trustee when will, trust agreement or other instrument establishing a trust fails to provide for the contingency of the trustee's refusal to accept the trust or the trustee's resignation, death or incapacity, added provision re Probate Court authority to appoint successor trustee of inter vivos trust and made a technical change; P.A. 19-137 replaced existing provision re Probate Court district with “specified in section 45a-499p”, made a technical change and deleted “, in which case the provisions of section 45a-473 shall apply”, effective January 1, 2020.
CT Gen Stat § 45a-475. (Formerly Sec. 45-85) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 802c - Trusts|Section 45a-475. (Formerly Sec. 45-85) - Filling of vacancy in town or county trusteeship. Duties of town's successor trustee.

 (a) Whenever the trustee of any trust for the use or benefit of any town or county or for the citizens of any town or county, as such, dies or becomes incapacitated or resigns or refuses to act, and no provision is made for such contingency by the instrument creating such trust, the treasurer of such town on behalf of the town or the State Treasurer on behalf of the county shall thereupon become such trustee, and such treasurer and his successors in office shall act as such trustee, provided the town treasurer shall secure such bond as the selectmen from time to time prescribe.(b) (1) When any town treasurer acts as such trustee, he shall include in his annual statement a report in detail of his account as such trustee, including a list of the securities on hand, the price and date of purchase of all securities purchased since his last statement, the amount, date and source of each item of income received and the names of all banks and depositaries where such trust money is deposited with the amount on deposit in each bank or depositary. (2) Such trust funds held by a town treasurer shall be invested only in the manner prescribed by section 45a-203, unless otherwise directed by vote of a town meeting. (3) All property so held in trust by a town treasurer shall at all times be open to the inspection of the selectmen and to the inspection of the person or persons appointed under the provisions of section 7-392 to audit the accounts of the town.(c) The provisions of section 45a-474 shall not apply to the trusts specified in this section.(1949 Rev., S. 6889; 1959, P.A. 152, S. 63; P.A. 80-476, S. 215.)History: 1959 act deleted all references to county government and empowered state treasurer to act for county as trustee; P.A. 80-476 divided section into Subsecs. and made minor wording changes, i.e. deleting “such” in Subsec. (b) in most instances of its occurrence; Sec. 45-85 transferred to Sec. 45a-475 in 1991.
CT Gen Stat § 45a-476. (Formerly Sec. 45-86) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 802c - Trusts|Section 45a-476. (Formerly Sec. 45-86) - Legal title vests in trustee appointed to fill vacancy.

 When the legal title to any property has vested in a trustee and the trusteeship has become vacant, such legal title shall vest in his successor immediately upon his appointment and qualification. A certificate of the successor's appointment, duly made and recorded in the land records of the town in which the property is situated, shall be evidence that such legal title is vested in the successor trustee.(1949 Rev., S. 6890; P.A. 80-476, S. 216.)History: P.A. 80-476 rephrased provisions and substituted “property” for “estate”; Sec. 45-86 transferred to Sec. 45a-476 in 1991.