If a matter concerning a minor is pending in the Superior Court for Juvenile Matters before a petition is filed in a Probate Court concerning the same minor, the Probate Court shall dismiss the petition.
(Probate Court Rules, rules 19 and 65.)
If a Probate Court appoints the commissioner of children and families as temporary custodian or guardian of the person of a minor, the commissioner shall immediately file a petition under C.G.S. section 46b-129 in the Superior Court for Juvenile Matters and notify the Probate Court of the filing. The Superior Court shall assume jurisdiction. The Probate Court shall defer further action and dismiss the matter on issuance of a Superior Court order regarding custody of the minor.
(C.G.S. sections 45a-607 and 45a-610.)
(C.G.S. section 17a-101g; Probate Court Rules, rule 19.)
(Probate Court Rules, rule 19.)
Conn. Prob. Ct. R. P. 42