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Timestamp: 2019-12-12 16:06:19
Document Index: 455750886

Matched Legal Cases: ['§1', '§ 2', '§5', '§ 6', '§ 7', '§ 8', '§10', '§112']

Summary of Vermont's Will Requirements:
Statutes Governing Vermont's Will Requirements:
A person of age and sound mind may devise, bequeath and dispose of his estate, real and personal, and of any right or interest which he has in any real or personal estate, by his last will and testament, and the word "person" shall include a married woman.
Vermont Statutes Annotated (14 V.S.A. §1)
Deposit of will for safekeeping; delivery; final disposition
a) A testator may deposit a will for safekeeping in the probate court for the district in which the testator resides on the payment of a fee of $2.00 to the court. The register shall give to the testator a certificate of deposit, shall safely keep each will so deposited and shall keep an index of the wills so deposited.
Vermont Statutes Annotated (14 V.S.A. § 2)
Execution of will; requisites
Except such nuncupative wills as are hereinafter mentioned, a will shall not pass any real or personal estate, or charge or affect the same, unless it is in writing and signed by the testator, or by the testator's name written by some other person in the testator's presence and by the testator's express direction, and attested and subscribed by two or more credible witnesses in the presence of the testator and of each other.
Vermont Statutes Annotated (14 V.S.A. §5)
A nuncupative will shall not pass personal estate when the estate thereby bequeathed exceeds the value of $200.00, nor shall such will be proved and allowed, unless a memorandum thereof is made in writing by a person present at the time of making such will, within six days from the making of it, nor unless it is presented for probate within six months from the death of the testator.
Vermont Statutes Annotated (14 V.S.A. § 6)
How made by soldier or sailor; military will
Vermont Statutes Annotated (14 V.S.A. § 7)
If the witnesses attesting the execution of a will are competent at the time of attesting, their becoming subsequently incompetent shall not prevent the probate and allowance of the will.
Vermont Statutes Annotated (14 V.S.A. § 8)
Devise or legacy to witness
If a person, other than an heir at law, attests the execution of a will whereby he or his wife or her husband is given a beneficial devise, legacy or interest in or affecting real or personal estate, such devise, legacy or interest shall be void so far only as concerns such person or his wife or her husband or one claiming under such person, husband or wife, unless there are three other competent witnesses to such will. Such person so attesting shall be admitted as a witness as if such devise, legacy or interest had not been made or given. A mere charge on the real or personal estate of the testator for the payment of debts shall not prevent his creditors from being competent witnesses to his will.
Vermont Statutes Annotated (14 V.S.A. §10)
Wills made out of state
A last will and testament executed without this state in the mode prescribed by the law, either of the place where executed or of the testator's domicile, shall be deemed to be legally executed and shall be of the same force and effect as if executed in the mode prescribed by the laws of this state, provided that such last will and testament is in writing and subscribed by the testator.
Vermont Statutes Annotated (14 V.S.A. §112)
[Reference - Vermont Requirements for a Will]