Under Connecticut’s version of the Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act, the subpoena is submitted to a court clerk in the judicial district where discovery is sought, who issues it for a $100 fee. The Act requires no Connecticut attorney. Served 123 LLC gets it issued and served.
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Served 123 LLC handles subpoena domestications in all 8 counties, and the clerk’s fee is in your quote. The town where discovery happens sets the judicial district; the county finder and clerk directory name its clerk. In four of the eight counties, towns belong to more than one judicial district, so the directory lists every district clerk that serves the county.
Records Subpoenas Under the Act
Under the Act, a subpoena includes one to produce and permit inspection and copying of designated books, documents, records, electronically stored information or tangible things in the person’s possession, custody or control.
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Our quote covers document preparation, the clerk’s fee and service if ordered.
Four stops, each set by the Connecticut Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act, the statutes it points to and the Judicial Branch forms, carry the out-of-state subpoena to a witness in Connecticut.
We prepare the papers, and a party submits the original or a true copy of the foreign subpoena, the form the Office of the Chief Court Administrator prescribes and the fee to a clerk of the Superior Court in the judicial district in which discovery is sought to be conducted.
On a submission that complies with Section 52-657(a)(1), the clerk, in accordance with the court’s procedure, promptly issues a Connecticut subpoena that incorporates the terms used in the foreign subpoena, carries the case caption and docket number of the foreign matter, names the issuing Superior Court and its address, and contains or comes with the party’s affidavit naming every counsel of record and any party not represented by counsel, with addresses and telephone numbers.
Our server serves it in accordance with Section 52-148e, as Section 52-658(a) directs, and the party pays the witness’s fees under Section 52-260 on the day of attendance; we advance them on your quote.
Our server completes and signs the return of service printed on the Connecticut subpoena, stating it was served eighteen hours or more before the time to appear, and it comes back to you.
Connecticut adopted the Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act (UIDDA) by statute, Sections 52-655 to 52-660 of the General Statutes, with Practice Book Section 13-28A as its court rule. Below, its text: where the foreign subpoena goes, what the clerk issues and how service is made.
To request issuance of a subpoena under this section, a party shall submit to a clerk of the Superior Court in the judicial district in which discovery is sought to be conducted in this state, or a clerk of the Probate Court in the probate district in which discovery is sought to be conducted in this state, as the case may be, the following: (A) The original or a true copy of a foreign subpoena, (B) the form prescribed under subdivision (2) of this subsection, and (C) with respect to any action in the Superior Court, the fee prescribed for issuance of a foreign subpoena pursuant to section 52-259 …
A request for the issuance of a subpoena under any provision of this section, or sections 52-658 to 52-660, inclusive, does not constitute an appearance in any court of this state.
When a party submits a foreign subpoena to a clerk of the Superior Court or a clerk of the Probate Court that complies with the requirements of subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of this section, such clerk shall, in accordance with the respective court's procedure, promptly issue a subpoena for service upon the person to which the foreign subpoena is directed.
Any subpoena issued under section 52-657 by a clerk of a court in this state shall be served in accordance with section 52-148e.
No reported Connecticut appellate decision has yet interpreted Sections 52-655 to 52-660; the Act’s own text governs submission, issuance and service.
Official texts: C.G.S. §§ 52-655 to 52-660; C.G.S. chapter 899 and its 2026 supplement; C.G.S. chapter 901; C.G.S. chapter 896; C.G.S. chapter 890; the Connecticut Practice Book and its 2025 amendments notice; 45 C.F.R. § 164.512. General information, not legal advice. The official text controls.
Served 123 LLC prepares the Section 52-657 papers for the clerk and has the Connecticut subpoena served.
Get a Free Quote Online →These cards cover service under § 52-658, the general Connecticut witness-subpoena statutes, the subpoena’s printed return, the witness’s fees, notice to the other parties, the place of the deposition, and objections and motions after the witness is served. For a summons or other court papers, see process service in Connecticut.
Section 52-658(a) has the clerk’s subpoena served in accordance with Section 52-148e, whose subsection (f)(1) reads: “Deposition of witnesses living in this state may be taken in like manner to be used as evidence in a civil action or probate proceeding pending in any court of the United States or of any other state of the United States or of any foreign country, on application to the court in which such civil action or probate proceeding is pending of any party to such civil action or probate proceeding. The Superior Court shall have jurisdiction to quash or modify, or to enforce compliance with, a subpoena issued for the taking of a deposition pursuant to this subsection.” Our server serves the witness and signs the return printed on it.
C.G.S. § 52-658(a); C.G.S. § 52-148e(f)(1); Judicial Branch subpoena formSection 52-658(b) applies Sections 52-148a to 52-152 and Sections 52-156 to 52-157 to a subpoena issued under Section 52-657. Under Section 52-148b, “No party may take the deposition of any person unless he has first given reasonable written notice to each adverse party or his known agent or attorney of the time and place for taking the deposition and the name and address of each person to be examined, if known, and, if the name is not known, a general description sufficient to identify him or the particular class or group to which he belongs.” It goes on: “Such notice shall be served by an indifferent person at the usual place of abode of each person entitled to notice or by mailing such notice to him by certified mail.”
C.G.S. § 52-658(b); C.G.S. § 52-148bThe return of service printed on the Connecticut subpoena has the server state: “I served this subpoena eighteen hours or more before the time designated for the person summoned to appear.” It goes on: “I read this subpoena to the summoned person and left a true and attested copy of it in the hands/ at the last usual place of abode of the summoned person”. Our server reads the subpoena to the witness, as the return states, then completes and signs that return, and we schedule service so the signed return can say so, with time to spare before the witness’s date. We then send you the signed return.
Judicial Branch subpoena formFor a witness’s attendance “before any court, the General Assembly or any committee thereof, when summoned by the state, or before any legal authority”, Section 52-260(a) sets the fee: it “shall be fifty cents a day, and for travel to the place of trial, except as provided in section 54-152, shall be the same amount per mile as provided for state employees pursuant to section 5-141c”. “The fees of any witness summoned by a party other than the state to testify in any action or proceeding shall be paid to the witness by such party on the day of attendance of such witness.” We advance the fee and the mileage on the same written quote as the clerk’s fee and the service.
C.G.S. § 52-260Section 52-50 provides: “All process shall be directed to a state marshal, a constable or other proper officer authorized by statute, or, subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, to an indifferent person.” Under its subsection (b), “Process shall not be directed to an indifferent person unless authorized by statute.” Section 52-143(a), the general Connecticut statute on subpoenas for witnesses, has them “served by an officer, indifferent person or” other listed persons, and provides: “Such subpoenas shall be served not less than eighteen hours prior to the time designated for the person summoned to appear, unless the court orders otherwise.”
C.G.S. § 52-50; C.G.S. § 52-143(a)Under Practice Book Section 13-29(d), a nonparty deponent who is a resident of this state may be compelled by subpoena served within this state to give a deposition at a place within the county of the nonparty deponent’s residence or within thirty miles of that residence, “or at such other place as is fixed by order of the judicial authority or as otherwise agreed including the nonparty deponent.” Its commentary: “The revised subsection (d) applies to both in-state and out-of-state actions when the nonparty deponent is a resident of this state.” Before service, we check the deposition place in the foreign subpoena against this rule.
P.B. § 13-29(d)The person served “may, within fifteen days after the service thereof or on or before the time specified in the subpoena for compliance if such time is less than fifteen days after service, serve upon the party who requested issuance of the subpoena written objection to appearing or producing, copying or permitting the inspection of such books, papers, documents or tangible things.” “If the objection is based upon the subpoenaed person incurring unreasonable expense, such written objection shall be accompanied by an affidavit of costs setting forth the estimated or actual costs of compliance with such subpoena, including, but not limited to, the person’s attorney’s fees or the costs to such person of electronic discovery.” “Service of the objection shall be made by United States mail, certified or registered, postage prepaid, return receipt requested, without the use of a state marshal or other officer.” Subsection (d)(3) sets the exception: the objection rules “shall not be applicable to a civil action filed to recover damages resulting from personal injury or wrongful death in which it is alleged that such injury or death resulted from professional malpractice of a health care provider or health care institution.”
P.B. § 13-28A(d)An application to enforce, quash or modify a subpoena issued by a clerk under Section 52-657 “shall comply with the rules of court of this state and the general statutes and shall be submitted to the Superior Court in the judicial district or the Probate Court in the probate district, as the case may be, in which discovery is sought”, and under Practice Book Section 13-28A(e)(2), in an action pending in another state that has adopted the Act, a motion goes to the judicial district in this state that issued the subpoena. A party or the witness may move to quash or modify it, and “The court may, upon motion made promptly and, in any event, at or before the time for compliance specified in a subpoena authorized by subsections (a) or (b) of this section, (1) quash or modify the subpoena if it is unreasonable and oppressive or if it seeks the production of materials not subject to production under the provisions of subsection (c) of this section, or (2) condition denial of the motion upon the advancement by the party who requested the subpoena of the reasonable cost of producing the materials being such.” A party may seek a protective order under Section 13-5, and the party who served it may move to compel compliance.
C.G.S. § 52-659; P.B. § 13-28A(e)(2), (f)–(h)Served 123 LLC handles the Section 52-658 service and the server’s signed return.
Get a Free Quote Online →These cards cover what a Connecticut subpoena can command a person to produce, the time a production must allow, the cost of compliance, the bar on subpoenas for reproductive and gender-affirming care, the copy to the Attorney General, HIPAA’s rule for a subpoena without a court order under 45 C.F.R. § 164.512(e), patient communications and business records under Section 52-180. For patient records, include with your order any court order, patient consent or § 164.512(e) assurance you have.
A subpoena under the Act includes one to “produce and permit inspection and copying of designated books, documents, records, electronically stored information or tangible things in the possession, custody or control of the person”. Under Practice Book Section 13-28A(c), a deposition subpoena may command production of designated books, papers, documents or tangible things “within the scope of the examination permitted by Sections 13-2 through 13-5”, and unless otherwise “ordered by a judge of the Superior Court or agreed upon in writing by the parties”, “any subpoena issued to a person commanding the production of documents or other tangible thing at a deposition shall not direct compliance within less than fifteen days from the date of service thereof”. The subpoena form reads: “You are further required to bring with you and produce anything that was ordered in the attached foreign subpoena.” Our server serves the Connecticut subpoena with the foreign subpoena attached.
C.G.S. § 52-656; P.B. § 13-28A(c); Judicial Branch subpoena formSection 52-148e(f)(2) opens with a nonparty’s written objection and later provides, in part: “… If the Superior Court finds that the subpoena issued to the person subjects such person to undue or unreasonable burden or expense, any order to compel such person's appearance or production, copying or inspection of such materials shall protect the person from undue or unreasonable burden or expense resulting from compliance with such subpoena and, except in the case of a subpoena commanding the production, copying or inspection of medical records, may include, but not be limited to, the reimbursement of such person's reasonable costs of compliance, as set forth in the affidavit of costs.” Subdivision (3) reads: “The provisions of subdivision (2) of this subsection shall not apply to a civil action filed to recover damages resulting from personal injury or wrongful death in which it is alleged that such injury or death resulted from the professional malpractice of a health care provider or health care institution.”
C.G.S. § 52-148e(f)(2)–(3)Section 52-155a provides that, “Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 52-155 and 52-657, a judge, justice of the peace, notary public or commissioner of the Superior Court shall not issue a subpoena requested by a commissioner, appointed according to the laws or usages of any other state or government, or by any court of the United States or of any other state or government, when such subpoena relates to reproductive health care services or gender-affirming health care services, as defined in section 52-571m, that are permitted under the laws of this state, unless the subpoena relates to” one of the exceptions the section then lists. The state’s application asks whether the applicant is “seeking information related to gender-affirming health care services or reproductive health care services”.
C.G.S. § 52-155a; Judicial Branch applicationSection 52-146w: “A covered entity or business associate that receives a subpoena for patient information related to reproductive health care services or gender-affirming health care services subject to the provisions of this section that does not fall under any exemption in subsection (b) of this section and is not accompanied by the written consent of the patient or the conservator, guardian or other authorized legal representative of the patient shall provide a copy of the subpoena to the office of the Attorney General not later than seven days after the date of receipt of the subpoena”. The same section adds: “A covered entity shall inform the patient or the patient's conservator, guardian or other authorized legal representative of the patient's right to withhold such written consent.”
C.G.S. § 52-146wUnder the federal standard for disclosures in judicial and administrative proceedings, 45 C.F.R. § 164.512(e)(1)(ii), a covered entity may answer “In response to a subpoena, discovery request, or other lawful process, that is not accompanied by an order of a court or administrative tribunal, if:” “The covered entity receives satisfactory assurance” from the party seeking the records. One is that “The covered entity receives satisfactory assurance, as described in paragraph (e)(1)(iv) of this section, from the party seeking the information that reasonable efforts have been made by such party to secure a qualified protective order that meets the requirements of paragraph (e)(1)(v) of this section.” Under paragraph (e)(1)(iv), that assurance comes as “a written statement and accompanying documentation demonstrating that:” “The parties to the dispute giving rise to the request for information have agreed to a qualified protective order and have presented it to the court or administrative tribunal with jurisdiction over the dispute; or” “The party seeking the protected health information has requested a qualified protective order from such court or administrative tribunal.” The other assurance, notice to the individual, has its own rule in paragraph (e)(1)(iii).
45 C.F.R. § 164.512(e)(1)(ii), (iv)The other assurance is that “reasonable efforts have been made by such party to ensure that the individual who is the subject of the protected health information that has been requested has been given notice of the request”. Paragraph (e)(1)(iii) says “a covered entity receives satisfactory assurances from a party seeking protected health information if the covered entity receives from such party a written statement and accompanying documentation demonstrating that:” “The party requesting such information has made a good faith attempt to provide written notice to the individual (or, if the individual's location is unknown, to mail a notice to the individual's last known address)”; “The notice included sufficient information about the litigation or proceeding in which the protected health information is requested to permit the individual to raise an objection to the court or administrative tribunal”; and “The time for the individual to raise objections to the court or administrative tribunal has elapsed, and:” “No objections were filed; or” “All objections filed by the individual have been resolved by the court or the administrative tribunal and the disclosures being sought are consistent with such resolution.”
45 C.F.R. § 164.512(e)(1)(ii)–(iii)Except as Sections 52-146d to 52-146j, 52-146p, 52-146q, 52-146s and subsection (b) provide, “in any civil action or any proceeding preliminary thereto or in any probate, legislative or administrative proceeding, a physician or surgeon” holding a license under section 20-9, or any other health care provider holding a license, “shall not disclose (1) any communication made to him or her by, or any information obtained by him or her from, a patient or the conservator or guardian of a patient with respect to any actual or supposed physical or mental disease or disorder, or (2) any information obtained by personal examination of a patient, unless the patient or that patient's authorized representative explicitly consents to such disclosure”. Under subsection (b) of Section 52-146o, the patient’s consent is not required for that disclosure “pursuant to any statute or regulation of any state agency or the rules of court”.
C.G.S. § 52-146oSection 52-180, on the “Admissibility of business entries and photographic copies”, begins: “(a) Any writing or record, whether in the form of an entry in a book or otherwise, made as a memorandum or record of any act, transaction, occurrence or event”. Such a record “shall be admissible as evidence of the act, transaction, occurrence or event, if the trial judge finds that it was made in the regular course of any business, and that it was the regular course of the business to make the writing or record at the time of the act, transaction, occurrence or event or within a reasonable time thereafter.” Subsection (b) adds: “The writing or record shall not be rendered inadmissible by (1) a party's failure to produce as witnesses the person or persons who made the writing or record, or who have personal knowledge of the act, transaction, occurrence or event recorded or (2) the party's failure to show that such persons are unavailable as witnesses.”
C.G.S. § 52-180(a)–(b)Served 123 LLC handles the submission and service of a Connecticut subpoena that commands production.
Get a Free Quote Online →These are the places a Connecticut foreign subpoena tends to go wrong, from the clerk’s office to the witness’s door.
We check the papers we prepare and the service we make against every trap below and tell you what needs fixing before the subpoena goes out.
Search or pick a county to see which judicial districts’ Superior Court clerks issue the subpoena there, then start a quote; the clerk directory below lists each office and, in the four split counties, its towns.
How New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island handle a foreign subpoena next to Connecticut’s Act, whether the law itself requires a local attorney and who issues the subpoena, each from the state’s own statute or rule. “Check” marks a state whose own court rules or forms leave the local-attorney question open.
| State | Act Adopted | Local Attorney Required by the Act | Who Issues |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | C.G.S. §§ 52-655 to 52-660 (P.A. 22-26, 2023) | No, C.G.S. § 52-657(a) | Clerk of the Superior Court, judicial district of discovery |
| New York | N.Y. CPLR 3119 (2011) | No | County clerk, discovery county (or a New York attorney) |
| Massachusetts | Not adopted; G.L. c. 233, § 45 | No | A notary public or justice of the peace |
| Rhode Island | R.I. Gen. Laws ch. 9-18.1 (P.L. 2019, ch. 190) | Check | Clerk of the superior court, discovery county (or a Rhode Island lawyer) |
Every answer cites the Connecticut statute, court rule or Judicial Branch source behind it. For questions that apply in every state, see our Subpoena Domestication FAQ. General information, not legal advice.
They are the Connecticut Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act, enacted by P.A. 22-26 and in force since July 1, 2023. Practice Book § 13-28A, adopted June 12, 2025 and effective January 1, 2026, is the matching court rule, § 52-656 defines a foreign subpoena, and § 52-657 sets out what the clerk does with one. The Act section quotes its key sentences.
The clerk for the judicial district where the deposition or production takes place, under § 52-657(a). § 51-344 builds each district from towns, so the town decides it; Bridgeport, Fairfield and Trumbull sit in the judicial district of Bridgeport, renamed from Fairfield by P.A. 23-46 on January 1, 2024, and Hartford, New Haven and Waterbury are listed town by town the same way. The district finder lists every office.
Not under the Act: § 52-657(a) has “a party” submit the request, and the request “does not constitute an appearance in any court of this state.” We prepare each paper before the Connecticut subpoena is issued and served. The Act section quotes both.
No. § 52-155 “is repealed, effective July 1, 2023.” Since that date a foreign subpoena goes to the district’s clerk of the Superior Court under § 52-657, so papers drafted under the repealed § 52-155 have to be rebuilt for the Act before they go in. Common traps covers the old route.
For a complete request, a Connecticut subpoena on the prescribed Judicial Branch form, signed by the clerk, with the foreign subpoena attached. It tells the witness to testify about what they know of the case and to bring and produce whatever the foreign subpoena orders, on the compliance date or the later date the form allows. The Act section quotes the clerk’s duty and the command.
§ 52-658(a). It sends a subpoena that a Connecticut clerk issues to § 52-148e for service. Its subsection (f)(1) reaches witnesses living in Connecticut for a civil action or probate proceeding pending in a federal court or a court of another state or country, on application of any party to the court where that case is pending. The serving card quotes (f)(1) in full.
Yes, by the subpoena form the Office of the Chief Court Administrator prescribes under § 52-657(d): its printed return has the server certify service at least eighteen hours before the time to appear. We book the server well ahead of the witness’s date. The return card quotes the return.
Every adverse party in the case, either directly or through whoever is known to act as its agent or attorney. § 52-658(b) brings in § 52-148b, which bars any party from taking a deposition until each of them has had reasonable written notice of when and where it will be taken and who will be examined. Notice to the parties quotes the statute and the delivery methods.
Not far: Practice Book § 13-29(d) holds a Connecticut nonparty to the home county or thirty miles of the residence, unless a court order fixes another place or another place is agreed with the deponent included, and the rule’s commentary extends that limit to actions pending in other states. Place of the deposition quotes the rule.
That the server served “eighteen hours or more before the time” to appear, and whether the true and attested copy was left in the hands of the summoned person or at the last usual place of abode. It is printed on the subpoena form § 52-657(d) calls for; our server signs it and we send it to you. The return shows both.
For attendance before any court, the General Assembly or a committee of it when summoned by the state, or any legal authority, § 52-260 sets a small daily fee plus mileage at the state employee rate, paid by the party who summoned the witness on the day the witness attends. Our written quote carries both as advances, alongside the clerk’s fee and the service. Witness fees quotes the statute.
In writing and by mail, except in malpractice actions § 13-28A(d)(3) excludes: Practice Book § 13-28A(d) has the witness serve a written objection on the party who requested it, with an affidavit of costs when the objection is based on unreasonable expense, sent certified or registered with a return receipt and never handed to a marshal or other officer. Objections quotes the deadline, the mailing rule and the malpractice exception.
The one where the discovery happens, which is also the district whose clerk issued the subpoena. Because we get the subpoena issued, we know which clerk’s office holds it and can tell you where a motion would be heard. Motions to quash quotes § 52-659, with its Probate Court alternative, and the Practice Book rule.
A party or the person to whom the subpoena is directed may move, promptly and no later than the compliance time, to quash or modify it, a party may move for a protective order under Practice Book § 13-5, and the party who served the subpoena may move to compel compliance, under § 13-28A(f) through (h). Motions to quash has the rule.
Not always. When the request comes from a commissioner or court of another state or government, or from a federal court, and the care is reproductive or gender-affirming care that Connecticut law permits, § 52-155a bars every judge, justice of the peace, notary public and Superior Court commissioner from issuing it, absent an exception. § 52-146w adds its own Attorney General copy rule. Records subpoenas cites both statutes.
$100, set by § 52-259(l) and listed on the Judicial Branch fee schedule, due when the request for issuance goes in. It appears as a line inside our written quote rather than a payment you make to the court yourself. The Act section cites the fee.
No. § 52-259 sets the civil entry fee at $360 for each civil cause, while a foreign subpoena carries its own $100 issuance fee under the same section, and the Judicial Branch fee schedule lists it on its own line. Our quote includes it. The Act section cites both.
Only “promptly”. § 52-657(b) names no number of days: the duty to issue arises once the request is complete, with the foreign subpoena, the prescribed form and the fee all in, and the clerk then acts under the court’s own procedure. We prepare the papers so that request is complete. The route shows each step.
Two 60-day limits are printed on the Connecticut subpoena: the compliance date it indicates falls within 60 days of issuance, and a later compliance date falls within 60 days of the indicated one. When we prepare the papers, we check that the indicated date falls within 60 days of issuance. The Act section quotes the form’s words.
Document preparation, the clerk’s fee under § 52-259(l) and service by our server with the signed return when you order service. When a witness must be paid under § 52-260, the fee and mileage are advanced on the same quote, so one invoice covers it from request to return. The route shows each step.
One written quote covers document preparation, the clerk’s fee and service, when you order service.
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