The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2024 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.
Title 12 : Court Procedure
Chapter 167 : Declaratory Judgments Act
(Cite as: 12 V.S.A. § 4714)-
§ 4714. Fiduciaries; executors
A person interested as or through an executor, administrator, trustee, guardian, or other fiduciary, creditor, devisee, legatee, heir, next of kin, or cestui que trust, in the administration of a trust, or of the estate of a decedent, an infant, a person lacking mental capacity, or a person without financial resources, may have a declaration of rights or legal relations in respect thereto:
(1) to ascertain any class of creditors, devisees, legatees, heirs, next of kin, or others; or
(2) to direct the executors, administrators, or trustees to do or abstain from doing any particular act in their fiduciary capacity; or
(3) to determine any question arising in the administration of the estate or trust, including questions of construction of wills and other writings. (Amended 2013, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 48.)
