The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
Subchapter
001
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GENERALLY; ACTIONS IN WHICH AVAILABLE; PERSONS AND PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TRUSTEE PROCESS
(Cite as: 12 V.S.A. § 3022)
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§ 3022. Assignment of future earnings; validity as against trustee process; recording
An assignment of future earnings shall not be valid against trustee process unless
executed in writing and made to secure a debt of an amount therein stated, contracted
prior to or simultaneously with the execution of the assignment, or a debt for necessaries
to be thereafter furnished to the debtor to the amount therein stated. The assignment
shall not be valid as to the trustee process unless it is recorded, before the service
of the writ upon the alleged trustee, as follows:
(1) In the office of the clerk of the town wherein the assignor resides, if he or she
is a resident of this State, otherwise in the office of the clerk of the town wherein
the employer of such assignor resides; or
(2) In the office of the clerk of the town wherein the principal place of business of
such employer is located, if such assignor is a nonresident and his or her employer
is a resident corporation, partnership, or association; or
(3) In the office of the Secretary of State, if the assignor is a nonresident and his
or her employer is a nonresident individual, corporation, partnership, or association,
authorized to do business in this State.