The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
001
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GENERAL PROVISIONS
(Cite as: 14 V.S.A. § 906)
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§ 906. Bond; amount, conditions
An executor or administrator shall give a bond to secure the executor’s or administrator’s
performance of the executor’s or administrator’s duties. The Probate Division of the
Superior Court shall set the amount of the bond and may order that the bond have sureties.
The bond shall be for the security and benefit of all interested persons, except where
a bond is to be taken to the adverse party, and shall be filed before the court issues
letters of administration. The court shall set the conditions of any bond, which shall
include the following:
(1) to make and return an inventory to the Probate Division of the Superior Court within
60 days as required by law and the rules of the court;
(2) to administer according to law and the decedent’s will, if any, all property comprising
the decedent’s estate, whether in the possession of the executor or administrator
or others for the benefit of the executor or administrator, and discharge all debts,
legacies, and charges;
(3) to render an account of administration to the Probate Division within one year and
at any other time when required by the court;
(4) to pay to the State of Vermont all inheritance and transfer taxes that the person
appointed is required to pay by the provisions of 32 V.S.A. chapters 181 and 183 and
to perform all other duties required by those chapters; and
(5) to perform all orders and decrees of the Probate Division. (Amended 1985, No. 144 (Adj. Sess.), § 38; 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 238a, eff. Feb. 1, 2011; 2017, No. 195 (Adj. Sess.), § 5.)