The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
003
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BONDS
(Cite as: 14 V.S.A. § 2751)
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§ 2751. Bonds; how conditioned
Before acting as such, a guardian appointed by the Probate Division of the Superior
Court shall give a bond with sureties in a sum as the court directs, conditioned as
follows:
(1) to make a true inventory of the real and personal estate of the ward coming to the
guardian’s possession or knowledge and file the original with the court and serve
copies of it as provided by the Rules of Probate Procedure;
(2) to manage and dispose of the estate and effects according to law and for the best
interest of the ward and faithfully discharge the trust in relation thereto;
(3) to render an account of the property of the ward in the guardian’s hands, including
the proceeds of real estate sold by the guardian, and of the management and disposition
of the same, within one year after appointment, if the ward has real or personal estate,
or within one year after such estate comes to the guardian’s possession or knowledge,
and at other times as the court directs;
(4) at the expiration of the trust, to render and settle the account and pay over and
deliver the estate and effects remaining in the guardian’s hands or due from settlement
to the persons legally entitled to the same. (Amended 1985, No. 144 (Adj. Sess.), § 129; 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 238a, eff. Feb. 1, 2011.)