The Connecticut Probate Assembly works to ensure the system is responsive and sensitive to residents' needs in order to serve them efficiently during a critical time in their lives.

When residents turn to probate courts, there is no bureaucracy and no red tape - just a clerk or judge to help.

Unlike other state and federal court systems, more than 90 percent of the cases in probate are not contested, so the role of the probate judge often is simply to guide residents through the process of probate matters.

Changing with the Times

The Connecticut Probate Assembly of probate judges will undertake several positive reforms to the Probate Courts including:

• Offering intensive, specialized training and education for all probate judges to meet increases in mandated hours of education
• Providing information about the system through this new web site
• Requiring probate courts to comply with minimum standards of hours of operation and office space to increase convenience and accessibility to the courts for residents
• Securing judicial and clerical salary reform

Probate Judges take pride in their work
and in this successful system - because probate matters.