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.
(Cite as: 14 V.S.A. § 11)
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§ 11. How revoked
(a)(1) A will is revoked:
(A) by executing a subsequent will that revokes the previous will expressly or by inconsistency;
or
(B) by performing a revocatory act on the will, if the testator performed the act with
the intent and for the purpose of revoking the will or part or if another individual
performed the act in the testator’s conscious presence and by the testator’s direction.
(2) As used in this subsection, “revocatory act on the will” includes burning, tearing,
canceling, obliterating, or destroying the will or any part of it. A burning, tearing,
or canceling is a revocatory act on the will, whether or not the burn, tear, or cancellation
touched any of the words on the will.
(b) The testator is presumed to have intended a subsequent will to replace rather than
supplement a previous will if the subsequent will makes a complete disposition of
the testator’s estate. If this presumption arises and is not rebutted by clear and
convincing evidence, the previous will is revoked and only the subsequent will is
operative on the testator’s death.
(c) The testator is presumed to have intended a subsequent will to supplement rather than
replace a previous will if the subsequent will does not make a complete disposition
of the testator’s estate. If this presumption arises and is not rebutted by clear
and convincing evidence, the subsequent will revokes the previous will only to the
extent the subsequent will is inconsistent with the previous will, and each will is
fully operative on the testator’s death to the extent they are not inconsistent. (Amended 2017, No. 195 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)