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Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 14 Sec. 1739

  • Person: shall include any natural person, corporation, municipality, the State of Vermont or any department, agency, or subdivision of the State, and any partnership, unincorporated association, or other legal entity. See
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States may apply to the District of Columbia and any territory and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See

§ 1739. Final decree of distribution or partition; bond

The Probate Division of the Superior Court shall not make a final decree of distribution or partition in an estate against which a person engaged in the military service of the United States and outside this State has a claim, until a bond is filed in the court by the creditors, heirs, legatees, or devisees or some one or more of them, in a sum and with sureties as the court directs, conditioned to pay the claimant the sum of money that is finally allowed him or her against the estate. (Amended 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 238a, eff. Feb. 1, 2011; 2017, No. 195 (Adj. Sess.), § 10.)