The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2024 session of the General Assembly.
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Title 15 : Domestic Relations
Chapter 011 : Annulment and Divorce
Subchapter 003 : PROCEEDINGS GENERALLY
(Cite as: 15 V.S.A. § 591)-
§ 591. Jurisdiction and power of courts
Superior Courts shall hear and determine complaints for divorce and for affirming or annulling the civil marriage contract and may issue process of attachment, execution, and other proper process necessary for the dispatch and final determination of such causes. The judges of the Superior Court shall be triers of questions of fact as well as of law. Their determination of questions of fact shall be final, and exceptions may be taken and questions of law heard in the Supreme Court as in other causes. (Amended 1973, No. 193 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 9, 1974; 2009, No. 3, § 12a, eff. Sept. 1, 2009.)
