Vermont Revocable Living Trust

A Vermont revocable living trust is a document you sign while you are alive that holds title to your property, with you serving as your own trustee. Property you retitle into it passes to the people you named without a Probate Division filing. Title 14A of the Vermont Statutes, the Vermont Trust Code, sets the rules.

This guide walks creation, funding, and the pour-over will you sign alongside the trust, each one read against the live statute. Four Vermont answers differ from what a form book written for another state will tell you, and every one of them is set out below with the section that says so. Have a licensed Vermont attorney review your own documents before you sign.

What the Vermont Trust Code Is

Vermont adopted the Uniform Trust Code and gave it a title of its own. 14A V.S.A. § 101 says the title may be cited as the Vermont Trust Code, added by 2009 Act No. 20, and section 28 of that act set the effective date at July 1, 2009.

Three roles run every trust, and you fill all three while you are alive.

Settlor. The person who creates the trust and moves property into it. That is you.

Trustee. The person who holds and manages the trust property. Most people name themselves first, so daily life does not change.

Beneficiary. The person the trust benefits. You are the current beneficiary during your life, and the people you name take what is left afterward.

The word revocable does real work. 14A V.S.A. § 602(a) says that unless the terms of a trust expressly provide that the trust is irrevocable, the settlor may revoke or amend it. Read the second sentence of that subsection before you rely on it: the default does not apply to a trust created under an instrument executed before the effective date of the title. A Vermont trust signed before July 1, 2009 answers to its own terms.

14A V.S.A. § 603(a) goes further. While the trust is revocable, the rights of the beneficiaries are subject to your control and the duties of the trustee are owed exclusively to you. Your children get no accounting and no vote while you are alive.

The Five Tests at 14A V.S.A. § 402

14A V.S.A. § 402(a) says a trust is created only if:

1. The settlor has capacity to create a trust.
2. The settlor indicates an intention to create the trust.
3. The trust has a definite beneficiary, or is a charitable trust, a trust for the care of an animal under § 408, or a trust for a noncharitable purpose under § 409.
4. The trustee has duties to perform.
5. The same person is not the sole trustee and sole beneficiary of all beneficial interests.

Item five stops one arrangement and no others. Serving as your own trustee and your own current beneficiary is fine, because your remainder beneficiaries hold beneficial interests too. Naming your children as remainder beneficiaries clears the test on the day you sign.

Capacity is measured against a will. 14A V.S.A. § 601 says the capacity required to create, amend, revoke, or add property to a revocable trust, or to direct the trustee, is the same as that required to make a will. That points at the same standard behind Vermont will requirements.

14A V.S.A. § 401 lists five ways to create a trust, and a living trust uses one of the first two: transferring property to another person as trustee or to the trust in the trust's name, or declaring that you hold identifiable property as trustee. That phrase about the trust's own name was added by 2023 Act No. 60 effective July 1, 2023, and it settles a question Vermont title work used to argue about.

Vermont also lets an agent build the trust for you. Section 401(5) allows creation by an agent under a power of attorney that expressly grants authority to create the trust, and § 402(b) deems the settlor to have capacity where the agent uses that route and the settlor had capacity when that document was signed.

Put the trust in writing. 14A V.S.A. § 407 permits an oral trust, and then says its creation and terms may be established only by clear and convincing evidence. That is a fight nobody wants their family to have.

Funding: The Step That Decides Everything

A trust holds only what you actually move into it. Anything left in your own name at death runs through Vermont probate no matter how well the trust reads.

The house

Sign a deed from yourself as an individual to yourself as trustee. Vermont says out loud that you may do this. 27 V.S.A. § 349(a)(1)(A), rewritten by 2023 Act No. 161 effective June 6, 2024, lets a person convey interests in real estate directly to themselves in a different legal capacity, without an intervening conveyance. No straw party, no second deed.

The formalities are short. 27 V.S.A. § 341(a) asks that the deed be signed by the party granting it, acknowledged by the grantor before a notary public, and recorded in the clerk's office of the town where the lands lie. Vermont asks for no witnesses. 27 V.S.A. § 342 then makes recording the step that counts: an unrecorded conveyance is not effectual to hold the land against any person but the grantor and the grantor's heirs.

The office is municipal. Vermont has no county registry of deeds, so the national form site telling you to file with the county recorder is describing some other state. 24 V.S.A. § 1154(a) puts deeds in the hands of the town clerk.

Married owners have one more step. 27 V.S.A. § 141(a) says a homestead or an interest in one shall not be conveyed by a married owner unless the spouse joins in the execution and acknowledgment, and a conveyance made without that joinder is inoperative as far as the homestead is concerned. Section 349(a)(2) repeats the rule for tenancy by the entirety. Your spouse signs the deed into the trust even where only your name is on the current one.

Budget the paperwork and the counter fees.

• Property transfer return. 32 V.S.A. § 9606(a)(1) requires the return to reach the town clerk at the time you hand over the deed, and § 9606(b) requires a return filed for an exempt transfer to set out the basis of the exemption.
• Two exemptions worth asking about. 32 V.S.A. § 9603(6) exempts transfers that effectuate a mere change of identity or form of ownership where there is no change in beneficial ownership, and § 9603(5) exempts transfers in trust to the extent of the benefit to the donor or to the spouses, children, grandchildren and their spouses named there. Put the question to the Vermont Department of Taxes or the attorney drafting the deed and get the answer in writing, because the rate is real: 32 V.S.A. § 9602 charges 1.25 percent of value, with 0.5 percent on the first $200,000.00 of a principal residence.
• The clerk cannot skip it. 32 V.S.A. § 9608(a) bars a town clerk from recording a deed that does not carry a properly executed transfer tax return and an Act 250 land use certificate, and fines the clerk who does it anyway.
• Recording fees. 32 V.S.A. § 1671(a)(6) sets $15.00 per page to record a document that becomes a matter of public record, plus $15.00 for the property transfer return.

Bank and brokerage accounts

Ask each bank or brokerage to retitle the account in the name of the trust. You rarely hand over the trust document itself. 14A V.S.A. § 1013(a) lets the trustee execute a certificate of trust that sets out less than all of the provisions of the instrument, and lets that certificate stand as evidence of authority to sell, convey, pledge, mortgage, lease, or transfer title to real or personal property.

Vermont's version has teeth and one formality most states leave out. The trustee's signature must be under oath before a notary public or another official authorized to administer oaths, and the certificate must carry nine items listed in § 1013(a), including the name of the trust, the date of the instrument, each settlor, each original trustee, each currently empowered trustee with an address, an abstract of the authorizing provisions, and a statement that the trust exists and has not been revoked or amended as to those provisions.

What you get back is worth the notary trip.

• § 1013(b) lets you record the certificate in the municipal land records where the land sits, and it then documents the trust, the trustee, and the trustee's powers as though the full instrument had been recorded.
• § 1013(c) makes the certificate conclusive proof of the matters it contains, and lets any party rely on it until it is amended, revoked, or contradicted by actual knowledge.
• § 1013(f) says the certification need not contain the dispositive terms of the trust. Who gets what stays private.
• § 1013(h) protects the bank that relies on it in good faith, which is what makes a bank willing to accept it.

Section 1013(g) lets the recipient ask for the excerpts that name the trustee and confer the power to act in the pending transaction, and nothing more. Vermont's section stops there and writes in no damages remedy against a bank that demands the whole document anyway, so expect to argue occasionally.

What to leave outside the trust

Do not retitle an IRA, a 401(k), a pension, or a life insurance policy into the trust. Those pass by the beneficiary form on file, and moving the account itself can trigger tax. Review the forms instead and name a backup beneficiary. Ask an advisor before making the trust the beneficiary of a retirement account, since the payout rules turn on who inherits.

A car needs no trust here. 23 V.S.A. § 2023(f) lets a Vermont title name a person who becomes the owner on the death of the principal owner, and says the designated transferee holds no rights of ownership until a valid death certificate establishes the death. Vermont has no equivalent deed for land, which is why the house needs the trust or an enhanced life estate deed.

Business interests come with consent clauses, so read the operating agreement or shareholder agreement before assigning one. Furniture, art, and collections move by a written assignment of personal property. Online accounts follow 14 V.S.A. chapter 125, covered in the Vermont digital assets guide. An animal gets its own provision under § 408, explained in the Vermont pet trusts guide.

The Pour-Over Will and the § 2329 Timing Trap

Sign a will alongside the trust. A pour-over will sends anything still in your own name at death to the trustee, so it follows one set of instructions rather than two.

Vermont authorizes this at 14 V.S.A. § 2329, the one surviving section of a chapter that is otherwise a wall of repeals. It lets a will devise property to the trustee of a trust identified in the will whose terms sit in a written instrument other than a will, and says the gift is not invalid because the trust is amendable or revocable, or because the trust was amended after the will was signed or after the testator died.

Two sentences in that section decide whether the plan works.

The trust has to exist first. Section 2329 reaches a trust whose terms are set out in an instrument executed before or concurrently with the execution of the testator's will, or in the valid last will of someone who predeceased the testator. Sign the trust first, or sign both on the same day. A will signed in March that points at a trust you sign in September is pointing at nothing the section describes.

Revoking the trust kills the gift. Section 2329 states that a revocation or termination of the trust before the death of the testator shall cause the devise or bequest to lapse. Tear up a Vermont trust and leave the old pour-over will in a drawer, and the gift to the trustee fails. That property drops into the residue of the will, or into Vermont intestate succession where the will cannot absorb it. Rewrite both documents on the same day or not at all.

The section closes with a third rule worth avoiding. Where the will itself sets out the terms of the trust, the property is held under a testamentary trust of the testator and administered under the will, which is the court-facing outcome a living trust exists to skip. Keep the terms in the trust instrument and let the will point at it.

A pour-over will is still a will, so it has to clear 14 V.S.A. § 5: in writing, signed in the presence of two or more credible witnesses by the testator or by another person at the testator's direction and in the testator's presence, and attested and subscribed by the witnesses in the presence of the testator and each other. Keep the pour-over pile small, because anything the will catches still goes through probate.

Tenancy by the Entirety: The 2025 Vermont Rule

Married Vermonters used to face a real objection to funding a trust with the house. Property held as tenants by the entirety is beyond the reach of one spouse's separate creditors, and deeding it into a trust looked like giving that up.

Vermont answered on April 24, 2025. 14A V.S.A. § 505(c), added by 2025 Act No. 7, says property held by spouses as tenants by the entirety and conveyed to their joint or separate revocable or irrevocable trusts, along with the proceeds of any sale of it, is immune from the claims of the spouses' separate creditors to the same extent as if it had stayed in tenancy by the entirety. Section 505(c)(2)(A) adds that the property is treated as tenancy by the entirety property in all respects, including for federal and state bankruptcy purposes.

Five conditions in § 505(c)(1) have to hold.

1. The spouses are married to each other.
2. The property is held in the trust or trusts, or has been deeded back out to the spouses as tenants by the entirety.
3. Where the trust is a joint trust, either spouse acting alone may revoke it and both spouses must act to amend it.
4. The property is the spouses' property.
5. Both spouses are current beneficiaries of one joint trust holding the whole property, or each spouse is a current beneficiary of a separate trust and the two trusts together hold the whole property.

Two limits belong in the same breath. Section 505(c)(2)(B) ends the immunity when a court dissolves the marriage. And § 505(c)(3) applies the subsection to trusts created before, on, or after April 24, 2025, so a Vermont trust drafted years ago can qualify, though condition three means a joint trust drafted with a both-signatures revocation clause does not. Ask a Vermont attorney to read your revocation clause against that condition.

What a Vermont Revocable Trust Does Not Do

It does not stop your creditors. 14A V.S.A. § 505(a)(1) subjects the property of a revocable trust to claims of your creditors during your lifetime, spendthrift clause or not. Section 505(a)(3) reaches the same property after your death for creditor claims, costs of administering your estate, funeral expenses, and statutory allowances to a surviving spouse and children, to the extent the probate estate cannot cover them. Estate-side deadlines sit in the Vermont creditor claims guide.

It does not shelter the house from Medicaid estate recovery. Section 505(a)(3) is the door the State walks through, and it does not close because the deed says trustee. Ask an elder law attorney before you plan around long term care.

It saves no Vermont estate tax. 32 V.S.A. § 7402(13) defines the Vermont gross estate as the federal gross estate under 26 U.S.C. § 2031, excluding property with situs outside Vermont, and § 7402(14) builds the Vermont taxable estate from the federal taxable estate. Property in a trust you can revoke stays in both. 32 V.S.A. § 7442a taxes nothing under $5,000,000.00 and 16 percent of the excess above it, and that arithmetic does not move because you signed a trust. The federal estate tax guide covers the other half.

Vermont's homestead statute says nothing about trusts. 27 V.S.A. § 101 exempts the homestead of a natural person up to $125,000.00 from attachment and execution, and chapter 3 carries no provision addressing a homestead held by a trustee. Some states answer this question in writing and Vermont has not, so ask counsel how your homestead claim survives the transfer rather than assuming it does.

Living Trust Versus Will in Vermont

The bond row is the sharpest of these. 14 V.S.A. § 906 says an executor or administrator shall give a bond, and the court's discretion runs to the amount and the sureties rather than to whether a bond exists at all. 14A V.S.A. § 702 points the other way for a trustee: bond only where the court finds the terms of the trust require one, or finds by clear and convincing evidence that a bond protects the beneficiaries.

Vermont's small estate route does not rescue a homeowner. 14 V.S.A. § 1901(a) opens it only where the estate has a fair market value of not more than $45,000.00 and consists entirely of personal property. One house takes you out of it, which the Vermont small estate guide walks through in full.

What Your Successor Trustee Does

The trust becomes irrevocable when you die, and the successor trustee takes over. 14A V.S.A. § 704(c) fills a vacancy in a fixed order: the person named in the trust, then a person the qualified beneficiaries unanimously agree on, then a person the Probate Division of the Superior Court appoints. Naming a backup keeps that choice out of court.

Two 60-day clocks start. Under 14A V.S.A. § 813(b), a trustee must notify the qualified beneficiaries of the acceptance and of the trustee's name, address, and telephone number within 60 days of accepting the trusteeship, and must notify them of the trust's existence, the identity of the settlors, the right to request the instrument, and the right to a report within 60 days of learning that a formerly revocable trust became irrevocable. Section 813(c) then requires a report at least annually and at termination, covering trust property, liabilities, receipts, disbursements, the source and amount of the trustee's compensation, and a listing of assets with market values where feasible.

Read your own trust before you count on those notices. The mandatory list at 14A V.S.A. § 105(b) runs twelve items, and the § 813 reporting duties are not among them, so the terms of a Vermont trust can trim them.

A trustee is entitled to reasonable compensation where the trust names no figure, under 14A V.S.A. § 708(a). Vermont publishes no percentage schedule and instead gives the Probate Division twelve factors at § 708(c), from the size of the trust and the number of assets to the sale of real property, litigation to protect the trust, and the fee customarily charged locally. Section 708(b) lets the court raise or lower a figure the trust does name where it runs unreasonably low or high.

There is a contest window, and Vermont's is short. 14A V.S.A. § 604(a) sets the deadline at the earlier of three years after the settlor's death, or four months after the trustee sends the person a copy of the trust instrument with a notice of the trust's existence, the trustee's name and address, and the time allowed. Sending that notice is optional, and it is how a trustee turns three years into four. Section 604(b) then lets the trustee distribute, with liability only where a contest is pending or a written warning arrives and suit follows within 60 days. The whole sequence sits in the Vermont trust administration guide.

Where a dispute does reach a courtroom, 14A V.S.A. § 203(a) gives the Probate Division of the Superior Court exclusive jurisdiction over proceedings brought by a trustee or beneficiary concerning the administration of a trust. Vermont seats one Probate Division in each county, and the Vermont courts directory lists all fourteen.

When a Vermont Trust Earns Its Cost

A trust pays for itself when you own real estate in more than one state, when you want the terms private, when somebody needs to manage your money the day you cannot, or when a beneficiary should receive money over years rather than in one check.

The argument gets thin in three situations.

One house and little else. An enhanced life estate deed under 27 V.S.A. chapter 6 moves a Vermont house for the price of recording, and it keeps your right to sell or mortgage during your life. Watch the direction of travel, though: 27 V.S.A. § 653(4) defines a grantor of one of these deeds as one or more grantors each of whom shall be a natural person. Once the trust owns the house, the trust cannot sign one. Choose the deed or the trust for that property, and choose before you record.

Accounts that already name people. Retirement plans, life insurance, payable on death bank accounts, and beneficiary-form securities registration all skip probate on their own. The rest of the toolkit sits in how to avoid probate in Vermont.

A trust you will not fund. An unfunded trust hands your family a false sense of safety and a probate anyway. If you will not sign the deed and call the bank, do not sign the trust.

Pair whatever you choose with a durable power of attorney and a Vermont advance directive, so nothing outside the trust strands your family in a guardianship petition. For the wider document set, start at Vermont estate planning basics.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Vermont make you register a living trust?

No. Title 14A of the Vermont Statutes contains no registration section, and 14A V.S.A. § 201(b) says a trust is not subject to continuing judicial supervision unless the Probate Division of the Superior Court orders it. You sign the trust, fund it, and file nothing with any court while you are alive.

Can I be my own trustee and my own beneficiary in Vermont?

Yes, as long as somebody else holds a beneficial interest. 14A V.S.A. § 402(a)(5) says a trust is created only if the same person is not the sole trustee and sole beneficiary of all beneficial interests. Naming remainder beneficiaries, which nearly every living trust does, satisfies that test while you still serve as your own trustee.

Does a Vermont living trust cut the Vermont estate tax?

No. 32 V.S.A. § 7402(13) defines the Vermont gross estate as the federal gross estate under 26 U.S.C. § 2031, and property in a trust you can revoke stays inside the federal gross estate. 32 V.S.A. § 7442a taxes nothing under $5,000,000.00 and 16 percent of the excess above it, computed from the same federal figures whether or not you signed a trust.

What happens to my pour-over will if I revoke the trust?

The gift lapses. 14 V.S.A. § 2329 states that a revocation or termination of the trust before the death of the testator shall cause the devise or bequest to lapse. Tearing up a Vermont trust and leaving the old will in the drawer can push that property into the residue of the will or into intestate succession, so rewrite both documents on the same day.

Can creditors reach a Vermont revocable trust?

Yes. 14A V.S.A. § 505(a)(1) subjects the property of a revocable trust to claims of your creditors during your lifetime. After your death, § 505(a)(3) reaches that property for creditor claims, costs of administration, funeral expenses, and statutory allowances to a surviving spouse and children where the probate estate cannot cover them.

Do Vermont spouses lose tenancy by the entirety protection by deeding the house to a trust?

Not since April 24, 2025. 14A V.S.A. § 505(c), added by 2025 Act No. 7, gives tenancy by the entirety property conveyed to the spouses' joint or separate trusts the same immunity from separate creditors it had outside the trust, if five conditions listed in § 505(c)(1) are met. Section 505(c)(3) applies the rule to trusts created before, on, or after that date.

Related Guides

• How to Avoid Probate in Vermont
• Vermont Enhanced Life Estate Deed
• Vermont Trust Administration
• Vermont Estate Planning Basics
• Vermont Will Requirements
• Vermont Pet Trusts

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• Title: 14A V.S.A. § 101 Short title. Publisher: Vermont General Assembly. Publication Date: Added 2009, No. 20, § 1. URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/14A/001/00101
• Title: 14A V.S.A. § 402 Requirements for creation. Publisher: Vermont General Assembly. Publication Date: Added 2009, No. 20, § 1; amended 2009, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 6. URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/14A/004/00402
• Title: 14A V.S.A. § 401 Methods of creating trust. Publisher: Vermont General Assembly. Publication Date: Added 2009, No. 20, § 1; amended 2023, No. 60, § 3, eff. July 1, 2023. URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/14A/004/00401
• Title: 14A V.S.A. § 407 Evidence of oral trust. Publisher: Vermont General Assembly. Publication Date: Added 2009, No. 20, § 1. URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/14A/004/00407
• Title: 14A V.S.A. § 601 Capacity of settlor of revocable trust. Publisher: Vermont General Assembly. Publication Date: Added 2009, No. 20, § 1. URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/14A/006/00601
• Title: 14A V.S.A. § 602 Revocation or amendment of revocable trust. Publisher: Vermont General Assembly. Publication Date: Added 2009, No. 20, § 1; amended 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 236, eff. February 1, 2011. URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/14A/006/00602
• Title: 14A V.S.A. § 603 Settlor's powers; powers of withdrawal. Publisher: Vermont General Assembly. Publication Date: Added 2009, No. 20, § 1. URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/14A/006/00603
• Title: 14A V.S.A. § 604 Limitation on action contesting validity of revocable trust; distribution of trust property. Publisher: Vermont General Assembly. Publication Date: Added 2009, No. 20, § 1. URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/14A/006/00604
• Title: 14A V.S.A. § 505 Creditor's claim against settlor. Publisher: Vermont General Assembly. Publication Date: Added 2009, No. 20, § 1; amended 2025, No. 7, § 1, eff. April 24, 2025. URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/14A/005/00505
• Title: 14A V.S.A. § 105 Default and mandatory rules. Publisher: Vermont General Assembly. Publication Date: Added 2009, No. 20, § 1; amended 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 236, eff. Feb. 1, 2011. URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/14A/001/00105
• Title: 14A V.S.A. § 201 Role of court in administration of trust. Publisher: Vermont General Assembly. Publication Date: Added 2009, No. 20, § 1; amended 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 236, eff. Feb. 1, 2011. URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/14A/002/00201
• Title: 14A V.S.A. § 203 Subject matter jurisdiction. Publisher: Vermont General Assembly. Publication Date: Added 2009, No. 20, § 1; amended 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 236, eff. Feb. 1, 2011. URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/14A/002/00203
• Title: 14A V.S.A. § 702 Trustee's bond. Publisher: Vermont General Assembly. Publication Date: Added 2009, No. 20, § 1; amended 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 236, eff. February 1, 2011. URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/14A/007/00702
• Title: 14A V.S.A. § 704 Vacancy in trusteeship; appointment of successor. Publisher: Vermont General Assembly. Publication Date: Added 2009, No. 20, § 1; amended 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 236, eff. February 1, 2011. URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/14A/007/00704
• Title: 14A V.S.A. § 708 Compensation of trustee. Publisher: Vermont General Assembly. Publication Date: Added 2009, No. 20, § 1; amended 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 236, eff. February 1, 2011. URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/14A/007/00708
• Title: 14A V.S.A. § 813 Duty to inform and report. Publisher: Vermont General Assembly. Publication Date: Added 2009, No. 20, § 1. URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/14A/008/00813
• Title: 14A V.S.A. § 1013 Certification of trust. Publisher: Vermont General Assembly. Publication Date: Added 2009, No. 20, § 1; amended 2009, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 11. URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/14A/010/01013
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• Title: 14 V.S.A. § 5 Execution of will; requisites. Publisher: Vermont General Assembly. Publication Date: Amended 2005, No. 106 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; 2017, No. 195 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; 2019, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. April 28, 2020. URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/14/001/00005
• Title: 14 V.S.A. § 906 Bond; amount, conditions. Publisher: Vermont General Assembly. Publication Date: Not listed. URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/14/061/00906
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• Title: 27 V.S.A. § 349 Conveyance to grantor and others. Publisher: Vermont General Assembly. Publication Date: Added 1977, No. 134 (Adj. Sess.); amended 2023, No. 161 (Adj. Sess.), § 23, eff. June 6, 2024. URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/27/005/00349
• Title: 27 V.S.A. § 341 Requirements generally; recording. Publisher: Vermont General Assembly. Publication Date: Amended 2023, No. 6, § 323, eff. July 1, 2023. URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/27/005/00341
• Title: 27 V.S.A. § 342 Acknowledgment and recording required. Publisher: Vermont General Assembly. Publication Date: Amended 2017, No. 160 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. July 1, 2019. URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/27/005/00342
• Title: 27 V.S.A. § 141 Execution and acknowledgment of conveyance. Publisher: Vermont General Assembly. Publication Date: Not listed. URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/27/003/00141
• Title: 27 V.S.A. § 101 Definition; exemption from attachment and execution. Publisher: Vermont General Assembly. Publication Date: Amended 2023, No. 6, § 314, eff. July 1, 2023. URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/27/003/00101
• Title: 27 V.S.A. § 653 Definitions. Publisher: Vermont General Assembly. Publication Date: Added 2019, No. 145 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. July 13, 2020. URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/27/006/00653
• Title: 32 V.S.A. § 9603 Exemptions. Publisher: Vermont General Assembly. Publication Date: Not listed. URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/32/231/09603
• Title: 32 V.S.A. § 9606 Property transfer return. Publisher: Vermont General Assembly. Publication Date: Not listed. URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/32/231/09606
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• Title: 32 V.S.A. § 7402 Definitions. Publisher: Vermont General Assembly. Publication Date: Not listed. URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/32/190/07402
• Title: 32 V.S.A. § 7442a Imposition of a Vermont estate tax and rate of tax. Publisher: Vermont General Assembly. Publication Date: Added 1979, No. 140 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 2019, No. 71, § 6, eff. Jan. 1, 2021. URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/32/190/07442a
• Title: 32 V.S.A. § 1434 Probate cases. Publisher: Vermont General Assembly. Publication Date: Not listed. URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/32/017/01434
• Title: 23 V.S.A. § 2023 Transfer of interest in vehicle. Publisher: Vermont General Assembly. Publication Date: Added 1969, No. 297 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1971; amended 2023, No. 85 (Adj. Sess.), § 299, eff. July 1, 2024. URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/23/021/02023
• Title: Act No. 20 (S.86), An act relating to the administration of trusts, Sec. 28 Effective Date. Publisher: Vermont General Assembly. Publication Date: 2009. URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2010/Docs/ACTS/ACT020/ACT020%20As%20Enacted.pdf

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