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.
Subchapter
002
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WIFE DESERTED OR LIVING APART FROM HUSBAND
(Cite as: 15 V.S.A. § 102)
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§ 102. Complaint by wife to sell real estate
When a married man is incapacitated for supporting his family, or deserts, neglects,
or abandons his wife, or by ill-usage or criminal conduct gives her cause to live
apart from him, or is committed to the Commissioner of Corrections, if the wife is
of age, a presiding judge of the Superior Court, upon her complaint for that purpose,
may authorize such wife to sell and convey her real estate, or personal property that
came to the husband by reason of the civil marriage and that remains in the State
undisposed of by him. Such judge may authorize a person holding money or other personal
estate, to which the husband is entitled in her right, to pay or deliver the same
to the wife. A married woman who is of age and lives apart from her husband and has
lived apart from her husband more than one year from any cause other than her adultery,
and who has real estate in her own right, may petition a presiding judge of the Superior
Court for leave to sell and convey such real estate. (Amended 1973, No. 193 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 9, 1974; 2009, No. 3, § 12a, eff. Sept. 1, 2009.)