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. § 2401)
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§ 2401. Uncertain beneficiaries; Probate Division of the Superior Court may appoint agent
or attorney
When a devise, legacy, gift, or trust is made to or for the benefit of a class or
classes of beneficiaries in this State whose members are not all ascertained or definitely
ascertainable, the Probate Division of the Superior Court may in its discretion appoint
a person or persons as agent or attorney to represent the beneficiaries, who shall
act for them and their interests, without expense to the State, in any litigation,
contest, or compromise in relation to the devise, legacy, gift, trust, will, contract,
or instrument by which the same is given. (Amended 2017, No. 195 (Adj. Sess.), § 16.)