2012 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure
Chapter 802b - Decedents’ Estates
Section 45a-274 - (Formerly Sec. 45-266a). Payment of medical or health benefits.
When any decedent is entitled to payment of medical benefits, federal or state, or insurance or health benefits or proceeds, or other intangible personal property owned by or payable to the decedent or to the decedent’s estate in a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, the judge of probate for the district within which such decedent resided may name an administrator, ex parte, for the purpose of enabling distribution to the surviving spouse or, if there is no surviving spouse, to the next of kin of such decedent or to the funeral director or physician, as the case may be, upon evidence satisfactory to him that all debts have been paid or provided for as prescribed by section 45a-365.
(1967, P.A. 558, S. 54; P.A. 80-476, S. 228; P.A. 11-128, S. 6.)
History: P.A. 80-476 rephrased provisions but made no substantive changes; Sec. 45-266a transferred to Sec. 45a-274 in 1991; P.A. 11-128 substituted reference to Sec. 45a-365 for reference to Sec. 45a-392 and made technical changes, effective July 1, 2011.
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