The reference in a will or codicil to a trust document by which a devise or bequest is made to such trust shall not thereby cause such trust or such part of the assets thereof distributed to it by such devise or bequest to be subject to the jurisdiction of the probate court in which such will or codicil is admitted to probate.
(1953, S. 2929d; 1957, P.A. 575; 1959, P.A. 421; 1961, P.A. 470, S. 5; 1963, P.A. 642, S. 41.)
History: 1959 act deleted requirement that trust document be executed and acknowledged by testator, spouse, parent or child and witnessed by at least two persons, deleted requirement that substitute trustees be corporate trustees authorized to act as such within state and deleted provisions governing incorporation of trust provisions in will and administration of bequest or devise as a testamentary trust; 1961 act deleted detailed provisions specifying validity or invalidity of devise or bequest in will, retaining only provision which stated that reference to trust document in a will or codicil does not make trust subject to jurisdiction of probate court; 1963 act made technical correction, deleting repetition of words “by such trust or such part of the assets thereof distributed to it”; Sec. 45-173 transferred to Sec. 45a-259 in 1991.
Annotation to former section 45-173:
Retroactive effect, limited. 162 C. 130.
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