Connecticut timeline
Connecticut probate timeline: the 30-day wait and creditor deadlines
The simplified route starts 30 days after death.
Connecticut creditor deadlines are not verified to this site’s standard, so none is published below.
Sources reviewed August 9, 2026. Latest primary-source re-fetch October 3, 2026.
The one date this page can source
The settlement of small estates (affidavit in lieu of administration) route requires 30 days to elapse from the date of death. This is a precondition: the affidavit or petition cannot be presented before it runs, regardless of how straightforward the estate is.
If the aggregate value of a decedent's solely owned tangible and intangible personal property, excluding property that passes outside of probate by operation of law, does not exceed forty thousand dollarsC.G.S. § 45a-273 — Connecticut General Assembly; 2026 Supplement.
Creditor deadlines
Connecticut runs a notice-to-creditors period plus separate rules for failure to present and for allowance/rejection of claims; a single number would conflate the publication/notice trigger with the outer limit.
Read this: C.G.S. §§ 45a-353 to 45a-364 (chapter 802b: notice to creditors, presentation and allowance of claims). The probate clerk in the county of filing can also state the local practice, which sometimes differs from the bare statutory minimum.
General sequence: first week, how long probate takes.
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