In determining the applicability of the provisions of sections 45a-458 to 45a-466, inclusive, to specific property, the following rebuttable presumptions apply:

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Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 45a-460

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.

(1) Property acquired during marriage by a spouse of the marriage while domiciled in a jurisdiction under whose laws property could then be acquired as community property is presumed to have been acquired as, or to have become and remained, property to which sections 45a-458 to 45a-466, inclusive, apply; and

(2) Real property situated in this state, and personal property wherever situated, acquired by a married person while domiciled in a jurisdiction under whose laws property could not then be acquired as community property, title to which was taken in a form which created rights of survivorship, is presumed not to be property to which sections 45a-458 to 45a-466, inclusive, apply.