(a)(1) If there are no children or any legal representatives of them, then, after the portion of the husband or wife, if any, is distributed or set out, the residue of the estate shall be distributed equally to the parent or parents of the intestate, except that no parent who has abandoned a minor child and continued such abandonment until the time of death of such child shall be entitled to share in the estate of such child or be deemed a parent for the purposes of subdivisions (2) to (4), inclusive, of this subsection. (2) If there is no parent, the residue of the estate shall be distributed equally to the brothers and sisters of the intestate and those who legally represent them. (3) If there is no parent or brothers and sisters or those who legally represent them, the residue of the estate shall be distributed equally to the next of kin in equal degree, and no representatives shall be admitted among collaterals after the representatives of brothers and sisters. (4) If there is no next of kin, the residue of the estate shall be distributed equally to the stepchildren and those who legally represent them.

1. (b) When any will executed prior to January 1, 1902, fails for any reason to dispose of the whole or any part of the estate of the testator, and such estate becomes intestate, the estate shall be distributed in accordance with the statutes of distribution in force at the time such will was executed.
2. (c) Real property subject to the life use of husband or wife, remaining undivided at the expiration of such life use, shall be distributed in the same manner by the same or other distributors, or the real property may be distributed during the continuance of such life interest and subject thereto.
3. (d) In ascertaining the next of kin in all cases, the rule of the civil law shall be used.
4. (e) Relatives of the half blood shall take the same share under this section that they would take if they were of the whole blood.

5. (f) For the purposes of this section:

   1. (1) A father of a child born out of wedlock shall be considered a parent if the father qualifies for inheritance under section 45a-438b; and
   2. (2) Next of kin shall include the kindred of a deceased father of a child born out of wedlock if the father would have qualified for inheritance from or through the child under section 45a-438b had the father survived the child.

See Sec. 45a-436 re survivor's succession upon death of spouse, election against will and intestate succession.

See Sec. 46b-216 re support of surviving spouse by heirs.

See Sec. 46b-570(a) re establishment of paternity by acknowledgment.

(1949 Rev., S. 7060; P.A. 80-476, S. 324; P.A. 87-239; 87-355, S. 1; P.A. 91-64; P.A. 14-104, S. 6.)

History: P.A. 80-476 divided section into Subsecs. and rephrased provisions; P.A. 87-239 amended Subsec. (a) by eliminating references to relatives of the whole and half blood and added Subsec. (e) providing “relatives of the half blood shall take the same share under this section that they would take if they were of the whole blood”; P.A. 87-355 amended Subsec. (a) by adding provision allowing distribution of estate residue to stepchildren and their legal representatives in cases where there is no next of kin; Sec. 45-276 transferred to Sec. 45a-439 in 1991; P.A. 91-64 amended Subsec. (a) by adding provision that no parent who abandoned a minor child and continued such abandonment until the death of such child shall be entitled to share in estate of such child or be deemed a parent for the purposes of Subsec. (a)(2) to (4), inclusive; P.A. 14-104 made technical changes in Subsecs. (a), (b) and (c) and added Subsec. (f) re father of child born out of wedlock considered parent and next of kin of deceased father of child born out of wedlock.