The provisions of sections 45a-458 to 45a-466, inclusive, shall apply to the disposition at death of the following property acquired by a married person:

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Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 45a-459

  • another: may extend and be applied to communities, companies, corporations, public or private, limited liability companies, societies and associations. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
  • 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) All personal property, wherever situated: (A) Which was acquired as, or became and remained, community property under the laws of another jurisdiction; or (B) all or the proportionate part of that property acquired with the rents, issues or income of, or the proceeds from or in exchange for, that community property; or (C) traceable to that community property;

(2) All or the proportionate part of any real property situated in this state which was acquired with the rents, issues or income of, or the proceeds from or in exchange for, property acquired as, or which became and remained, community property under the laws of another jurisdiction, or property traceable to that community property.