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When someone who owns shares in a company dies, those shares, like all property, are put into trust for the beneficiaries until all the property in the estate is determined, debts are repaid and the remaining property can be distributed.

Step 1: File the will and Petition/Administration or Probate of Will, PC-200, within 30 days of the decedent's death. A petition for administration or probate of will should be submitted to the Probate Court within 30 days of the decedent's death.

In the letter, the Executor can require a creditor to submit an affidavit in support of the creditor's claim. Creditors have 150 days to file a claim in a Connecticut estate going through probate unless the Executor sends the creditor the letter described above.

Estates do not get any allowances on savings, income or dividends.

Interest and Dividend Income A separate Form 1099 should show the interest and dividends earned after the date of the decedent's death and paid to the estate or other recipient that must include those amounts on its return.

Inheritances aren't considered income for federal tax purposes, but subsequent earnings on the inherited assets, including interest income and dividends, are taxable (unless it comes from a tax-free source).

- When a Person Dies with less than $50,000. When the person who died (the Decedent) had less than $50,000 of personal property then it's considered a small estate, and is called a Voluntary Administration. It does not matter if the Decedent had a Will or not.

Inheritances of cash or property are not taxed as income to the recipient. As of 2021, the estate tax, which the estate itself pays, is levied only on amounts above $11.7 million.