Protecting Families.
Securing Futures.
Securing Futures.
Welcome! Connecticut’s Probate Courts protect the rights of individuals and ensure care, safety, and community-based solutions for thousands of our most vulnerable residents and their families in times of need. We handle a wide range of sensitive issues affecting children, the elderly, persons with intellectual disability and individuals with psychiatric disabilities, in addition to their traditional role of overseeing decedents’ estates and trusts. Our website offers quick access to user guides, fillable court forms, eFiling and contact information for the Probate Court serving your community. We hope you find this site helpful.
Beverly K. Streit
Probate Court Administrator
Key Matters We Assist With
Key Matters We Assist With
Children’s Matters
Here you'll find information about issues related to protecting the best interests of children — including appointing guardians, granting adoptions, establishing parentage, terminating parental rights, and emancipating minors.
Trusts & Estates
In this section, you'll find helpful resources related to the administration and oversight of trusts and estates, including wills, testamentary and living trusts, and property title determination.
Mental Health Issues
This section covers how to ensure those with mental and behavioral health issues receive the support they need — including involuntarily committing them to psychiatric care, requiring substance use treatment, and permitting involuntary medication.
Intellectual Disability
Click here for resources related to appointing guardians to support adults with intellectual disability who are unable to care for, or make decisions about, their own physical health or safety.
Conservatorship
Here you'll find details about the process for appointing conservators — a person appointed by the Probate Court to oversee someone else's financial or personal affairs.
Other Matters
This section covers a variety of other issues handled by the Probate Courts, including name changes, quarantine and isolation orders for public health, removal of life support and more.
Explore our resource library
Case Lookup Tool
This tool allows you to search Probate Court case data available from January 5, 2011 to the present.
Fees & Expenses
Click here for helpful information and tools about probate fees, which are uniform across the state.
Public Meeting Information
The Connecticut Probate Courts through the Connecticut Probate Assembly, the Office of the Probate Court Administrator, and the Probate Court Budget Commitee regularly hold administrative meetings.
Court Locator Directory
Simply select a town for contact information and directions to the Probate Court in that area.