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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GENERAL PROVISIONS
(Cite as: 14 V.S.A. § 301)
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§ 301. Intestate estate
(a) Any part of a decedent’s estate not effectively disposed of by will passes by intestate
succession to the decedent’s heirs, except as modified by the decedent’s will.
(b) A decedent’s will may expressly exclude or limit the right of an individual or a class
to inherit property. If such an individual or member of such a class survives the
decedent, the share of the decedent’s intestate estate that would have passed to that
individual or member of such a class passes subject to any such limitation or exclusion
set forth in the will.
(c) Nothing in this section shall preclude the surviving spouse of the decedent from making
the election and receiving the benefits provided by section 319 of this title. (Added 2009, No. 55, § 5, eff. June 1, 2009.)