When any person under voluntary or involuntary representation becomes a settled inhabitant of any town in the state in a probate district other than the one in which a conservator was appointed, and is an actual resident in such district, the Probate Court in which the conservator was appointed shall, upon motion of the conservator, the person under conservatorship, the first selectman or the chief executive officer of the town in which the person under conservatorship resides or the husband or wife or a relative of the person under conservatorship, transfer the file to the probate district in which the person under conservatorship resides at the time of the application, if the court determines that the requested transfer is the preference of the person under conservatorship. Upon issuance of an order to transfer a file under this section, the transferring court shall transmit a digital image of each document in the court file to the transferee court using the document management system maintained by the Office of the Probate Court Administrator. The transferee court shall thereupon assume jurisdiction over the conservatorship.

(P.A. 77-446, S. 11; P.A. 80-476, S. 138; P.A. 05-26, S. 1; P.A. 14-103, S. 14; P.A. 17-136, S. 13.)

History: P.A. 80-476 made minor changes in wording; Sec. 45-77a transferred to Sec. 45a-661 in 1991; P.A. 05-26 added “the person under conservatorship” re persons who may initiate a motion to transfer file and made a technical change; P.A. 14-103 added provision re court determination that requested file transfer is the preference of person under conservatorship and made technical changes; P.A. 17-136 replaced provision re copying and delivering documents with provision re transferring court to transmit digital image of each document in court file to transferee court using document management system maintained by Office of the Probate Court Administrator, and made technical changes effective January 1, 2018.