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A Letter of Testamentary?sometimes called a "Letter of Administration" or "Letter of Representation"?is a document granted by a local court. The document simply states that you are the legal executor for a particular estate and that you have the ability to act as such.

The Executor (or Administrator) of an estate will be supplied with a Fiduciary Probate Certificate (called PC-450), a document from the Probate Court that will evidence that the Executor/Administrator is appointed as such for the estate.

The Court, giving him or her the legal authority to take actions on behalf of the estate, will issue a ?Letters Testamentary? to the Executor. The Executor is then charged with gathering and inventorying all of the estate's assets. His Report (?Inventory?) must be submitted to the Court early on in the process.

If the decedent's solely-owned assets include no real property and are valued at less than $40,000 ? which meets Connecticut's ?small estates limit? ? then the assets and property of the estate can be settled without full probate, under a much shorter and easier process.

Once you're appointed as executor of an estate, you can take the next steps to get a letter of testamentary. To do that, you'll need to file a request with a probate court and provide certain documents, including: A copy of the will if the deceased person had one. A copy of the death certificate.

You may be eligible to receive retroactive child support for up to the three previous years as a custodial parent if the court determines that your child's other parent owed and could afford child support payments for that period of time.