Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2008/bills/house/H-203.HTM
Timestamp: 2018-06-23 19:39:30
Document Index: 657093453

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 313', '§ 316', '§ 333', '§ 334', '§ 335', '§ 337']

H.203
AN ACT RELATING TO INCREASING THE AMOUNT OF AN ESTATE TO WHICH A SURVIVING SPOUSE IS ENTITLED WHEN THE DECEASED SPOUSE DIES WITHOUT A WILL
Upon motion, the surviving spouse of a decedent residing with the decedent at the time of the decedent’s death may receive out of the decedent’s estate all furnishings and furniture in the decedent’s household when the decedent leaves no descendants who object. If any objection is made by any of the descendants, the court shall decide what, if any, of such personalty shall pass under this section. Goods and effects so assigned shall be in addition to the distributive share of the estate to which the surviving spouse is entitled under other provisions of law. In making a determination pursuant to this section, the court may consider the length of the decedent’s marriage, the sentimental and monetary value of the property, and the source of the decedent’s interest in the property.
§ 313. Surviving spouse; vessel, snowmobile, or
Whenever the estate of a decedent who dies intestate consists principally of a vessel, snowmobile, or all-terrain vehicle, the surviving spouse shall be deemed to be the owner of the vessel, snowmobile, or all-terrain vehicle, and
title to the vessel, snowmobile, or all-terrain vehicle shall automatically pass to the surviving spouse.
§ 316. Support of Surviving Spouse and Family During
(a) A surviving spouse may waive the provisions of the decedent’s will and instead elect to take a percentage of the balance of the estate, after the payment of claims and expenses, equal to 33 percent plus twice the number of years of marriage to the decedent, not to exceed 50 percent. The surviving spouse’s percentage of the decedent’s probate estate may be increased or decreased in the court’s discretion if that percentage share would be inequitable to any interested person, including the surviving spouse, after taking into consideration assets not subject to the probate court’s jurisdiction.
(c) The rights of election of the surviving spouse in subsection 319(a) of this chapter may be waived in whole or in part before or during marriage by a written contract or waiver signed by the surviving spouse that is witnessed and acknowledged. Such an agreement is not enforceable if the surviving spouse proves any of the following:
(1) the surviving spouse did not execute the waiver voluntarily;
(2) the waiver was unfair when it was made or distributed;
(3) one spouse did not have separate legal representation at the time the agreement was executed; or
(4) the surviving spouse was not provided with a full and fair financial disclosure of the property or financial obligations of the decedent.
§ 333. Share of Child or Descendant of Child Omitted
§ 334. Omitted or After-born Child; From What Part of
Estate Share Taken
§ 335. Beneficiary Dying before Testator: Descendants
§ 337. Requirement that Individual Survive Decedent for