Over the years as a Florida Attorney Attorney I have heard and read about problems that the Connecticut probate court has experienced with a system set up several decades ago having a significant number of local courts so there have been 117 probate courts.
As Rick Green points out in his Hartford Courant article there is about to be significant change to the system. There is legislation that the Connecticut house has approved which would eliminate 67 of the probate judges positions and sharply reduce the number of probate courts. The court system there is near bankruptcy and there have a number of problems over the years so they are seeking to fix those problems and the governor has already indicated support for the proposed legislation to reduce the size.
Despite the significantly larger population by contrast Florida has vastly fewer than 117 probate courts. In Florida the significant counties have there own probate courts so there is a Broward County Probate Court and a Palm Beach Probate Court and in Palm Beach there are northern, southern and central regions most counties just have one location (although there are some regional branches that are wired up so probate attorneys could appear ex parte but they do not have a seperate court or full time judges there. Florida has 67 counties and fewer probate courts than that. Like Connecticut and probably a number of other jurisdictions though the Florida court system had some financial issues which are being addressed through raising fees for nearly all circuit court matters in order to balance the budget.