2012 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure
Chapter 801b - Probate Court Procedures
Section 45a-106 - Entry fees. Basic fees other than for decedent’s estates and fiduciary accountings.


CT Gen Stat § 45a-106 (2012) What's This?

The basic fees payable to courts of probate for any proceeding other than in connection with the settlement of the estate of a deceased person or periodic accounts of trustees, guardians, conservators or other fiduciaries shall be as follows:

(1) Except for such proceedings for which basic fees are specified in subdivision (4), (5) or (6) of this section or are otherwise specified or exempted in section 45a-111 or elsewhere in the general statutes, there shall be payable to the Court of Probate with respect to each application, petition or motion filed with the court to commence a matter before it, an entry fee of one hundred fifty dollars which shall be paid by the person making the application, petition or motion.

(2) On each matter commenced by the court on its own motion, an entry fee of one hundred fifty dollars shall be payable by an interested party as determined by the court.

(3) For purposes of establishing fees payable to courts of probate under this section, all applications, petitions and motions filed and proceedings thereunder, in connection with a matter which has been entered as above, which are necessary to enter a final decree in and are incidental to the action of the court being sought in the matter so entered shall be covered by the entry fee and by any additional fee or expense under subdivision (6) of this section that may have become payable in such matter. No additional fees under this section shall be charged for any such incidental applications, petitions or motions, except that once a final decree is entered in any matter and, thereafter, additional action or actions are sought in the court in connection therewith, such additional action or actions shall be treated as a new matter under this section.

(4) For proceedings brought under section 46b-30, the fee shall be twenty-five dollars.

(5) For filing a will in the Probate Court, the fee shall be five dollars. For filing any other document in the probate court under the provisions of any statute if the court is not required to take any action, the fee shall be twenty-five dollars, in addition to any applicable recording fee. Any fee under this subdivision shall be payable by the person filing such will or document.

(6) A fee of fifty dollars, plus the actual expenses of rescheduling the adjourned hearing that are payable under section 45a-109, 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, except that the court, for cause shown, may waive either the fifty-dollar fee or the actual expenses of rescheduling the adjourned hearing, or both.

(P.A. 90-146, S. 2; P.A. 93-279, S. 8, 20; P.A. 97-93, S. 1, 3; P.A. 03-188, S. 2; P.A. 05-10, S. 18; 05-288, S. 240; P.A. 10-184, S. 5; P.A. 12-45, S. 2.)

History: P.A. 93-279 changed entry fee from $90 to $100, increased the cost of additional hearings or hearings exceeding one hour to $25, increased cost of appeal to $50, payable by appellant, increased cost of proceedings under Secs. 46b-26, 46b-27 and 46b-30 from $5 to $25, added provision that cost for filing will shall be $5 and increased cost for filing any other document from $5 to $25 in addition to any recording charge and added provision that charge of $50 plus actual costs of rescheduling hearing shall be payable by person requesting or necessitating rescheduled hearing, provided court may waive charge or costs, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 97-93 amended Subdivs. (1) and (2) to increase entry fees to $150 from one $100, effective January 1, 1998; P.A. 03-188 amended Subdiv. (7) by deleting references to repealed Secs. 46b-26 and 46b-27 and making a technical change; P.A. 05-10 amended Subdiv. (7) to add reference to Sec. 46b-38jj; P.A. 05-288 repealed change to Subdiv. (7) enacted by P.A. 05-10; P.A. 10-184 deleted former Subdiv. (6) re $50 charge for appeal and redesignated existing Subdivs. (7) to (9) as Subdivs. (6) to (8), effective June 8, 2010; P.A. 12-45 substituted “fees” for “costs”, amended Subdiv. (1) to reference fees specified in redesignated Subdiv. (4), deleted former Subdivs. (3) and (4) re fees for additional hearings or hearings that exceed 1 hour, redesignated existing Subdivs. (5) to (8) as Subdivs. (3) to (6), amended redesignated Subdiv. (6) to substitute “expenses” for “costs” and add “that are payable under section 45a-109” re expenses of rescheduling adjourned hearing, and made technical and conforming changes, effective January 1, 2013.

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