2011 Connecticut Code
Title 45a Probate Courts and Procedure
Chapter 801b Probate Court Procedures
Sec. 45a-108. Costs for accounting other than with respect to a decedent's estate.

      Sec. 45a-108. Costs for accounting other than with respect to a decedent's estate. (a)(1) Except with respect to a decedent's estate, the basic costs for all proceedings in connection with allowance and settlement of a periodic or other account, after notice and hearing, regardless of the date of origin of the estate in which such account is filed, shall be in accordance with the following schedule:

If the book value or market value or
receipts, whichever is larger, is: Cost Less than $25,000 $50.00 $25,000 to $375,000 .20% thereof $375,000 and over $750.00
      (2) If more than one account is the subject of a hearing, the charges shall be based on the values in the most recent account being heard.

      (b) If more than one hearing is held in any matter under this section, an additional charge of twenty-five dollars shall be payable to the court by the moving party, or, in the discretion of the court, by any interested party against whom the court shall assess such additional charge.

      (c) If the total time of any one hearing in the matter exceeds one hour, an additional charge of twenty-five dollars per hour for each hour in excess of the first hour shall be payable to the court by the moving party, or in the discretion of the court, by any interested party against whom the court shall assess the additional charge, provided the additional charge shall not exceed three hundred dollars.

      (d) A charge of fifty dollars plus the actual costs of rescheduling the adjourned hearing shall be payable to the court by any party who requests an adjournment of a scheduled hearing or whose failure to appear necessitates an adjournment, provided the court may waive the charge and costs for cause shown.

      (P.A. 90-146, S. 4; P.A. 93-279, S. 10, 20; P.A. 10-184, S. 6.)

      History: P.A. 93-279 deleted former Subsec. (a) re schedule of costs for receiving accounts and placing them on file without hearing, relettered former Subsec. (b) as (a) and added Subsecs. (b) and (c) re cost of $25 for additional hearing or for hearing exceeding one hour, Subsec. (d) re charge of $50 for an appeal and Subsec. (e) re charge of $50 plus costs of rescheduling adjourned hearing, provided court may waive costs for good cause shown, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 10-184 deleted former Subsec. (d) re $50 charge for appeal and redesignated existing Subsec. (e) as Subsec. (d), effective June 8, 2010.

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