In Connecticut, the fiduciary signs the probate inventory (Form PC-440) "under penalty of false statement."[1] If there are cofiduciaries, each one signs, unless a cofiduciary's signature cannot be obtained and the filing explains why.[2]
The fiduciary's attorney cannot sign the probate inventory in the fiduciary's place because an attorney may sign a probate filing for a client only "if the document is not required to be signed under oath or penalty of false statement."[3]
The attorney's signature has one place on the probate inventory: the certification that copies of the inventory were sent to each party and attorney. The fiduciary or the attorney may sign that certification.[4]
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 45a-341(a)(1) (2025) ("An inventory . . . shall be made and signed under penalty of false statement by the fiduciary."). ↩︎
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