The Vermont Statutes Online
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Title 14 : Decedents Estates and Fiduciary Relations
Chapter 047 : Uniform Simultaneous Death Act
(Cite as: 14 V.S.A. § 622)-
§ 622. Beneficiaries
Where two or more beneficiaries are designated to take successively by reason of survivorship under another person’s disposition of property and there is not sufficient evidence that these beneficiaries have died otherwise than simultaneously, the property thus disposed of shall be divided into as many equal portions as there are successive beneficiaries and these portions shall be distributed respectively to those who would have taken in the event that each designated beneficiary had survived.
