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In Connecticut, a surviving joint owner records the “Affidavit of facts relating to title or interest in real estate”.

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Who may sign in Connecticut: Any person having knowledge of the facts or competent to testify concerning them in open court.

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The “Affidavit of facts relating to title or interest in real estate”: Connecticut lets any person with knowledge of the facts record an affidavit stating a death that may affect title to land. A joint tenant's interest passes to the surviving joint tenant by reason of the death; the affidavit puts the death on the town land records. A surviving joint owner records it with the town or city clerk, and the prepared document is laid out for recording.

Who may sign, in the statute's words: Any person having knowledge of the facts or competent to testify concerning them in open court. The affidavit is sworn before a notary public, who completes the jurat.

It states: the facts of the death that may affect title to the real estate; a description of the land whose title the facts may affect; the name of the person appearing by the record to be the owner of the land when the affidavit is recorded.

Recording is not a condition of the transfer: title passed at the death under the instrument. Filed with it: Connecticut estate tax return; Certificate of release of lien.

In Connecticut, no statute authorizes a transfer on death deed, so there is no beneficiary's affidavit to record. The document prepared on this page is the surviving joint owner's affidavit.

The Affidavit of Death in Connecticut

When a joint owner dies in Connecticut, the land records still show the deceased owner. What a surviving joint owner records: the “Affidavit of facts relating to title or interest in real estate”. What it does: Connecticut lets any person with knowledge of the facts record an affidavit stating a death that may affect title to land. A joint tenant's interest passes to the surviving joint tenant by reason of the death; the affidavit puts the death on the town land records. It goes to the town or city clerk.

What the statute has it state: the facts of the death that may affect title to the real estate; a description of the land whose title the facts may affect; the name of the person appearing by the record to be the owner of the land when the affidavit is recorded.

Recording is not a condition of the transfer; title passed at the death under the instrument, and the affidavit puts the death on the record. Filed with it: Connecticut estate tax return; Certificate of release of lien.

In Connecticut, no statute authorizes a transfer on death deed, so there is no beneficiary's affidavit to record.

SimplyTrust Editorial·Updated October 26, 2026

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