The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2024 session of the General Assembly.
The Vermont Statutes Online will be down for maintenance on Wednesday, October 22 while we load the actions of the 2025 General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
Title 14 : Decedents Estates and Fiduciary Relations
Chapter 071 : Actions by and Against Executors and Administrators
Subchapter 001 : GENERAL PROVISIONS
(Cite as: 14 V.S.A. § 1410)-
§ 1410. Representative may compromise claims of the estate
With the approval of the Probate Division of the Superior Court, an executor or administrator may compromise with a debtor of the deceased for a debt due and may give a discharge of the debt on receiving payment of the compromised amount. (Amended 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 238a, eff. Feb. 1, 2011; 2017, No. 195 (Adj. Sess.), § 7.)
