Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 14 > Chapter 111 > Subchapter 8 - Void or Voidable Appointment

• Account: means an arrangement under a terms-of-service agreement in which a custodian carries, maintains, processes, receives, or stores a digital asset of the user or provides goods or services to the user. See
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Catalogue of electronic communications: means information that identifies each person with whom a user has had an electronic communication, the time and date of the communication, and the electronic address of the person. See
• Content of an electronic communication: means information concerning the substance or meaning of a communication that:

• Court: means the Probate Division of the Superior Court of Vermont. See
• Custodian: means a person who carries, maintains, processes, receives, or stores a digital asset of a user. See
• Designated recipient: means a person chosen by a user using an online tool to administer digital assets of the user. See
• Digital asset: means an electronic record in which an individual has a right or interest. See
• Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fiduciary: means an original, additional, or successor personal representative, guardian, agent, or trustee. See
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Information: means data, text, images, videos, sounds, codes, computer programs, software, databases, or the like. See
• Online tool: means an electronic service provided by a custodian that allows the user, in an agreement distinct from the terms-of-service agreement between the custodian and user, to provide directions for disclosure or nondisclosure of digital assets to a third person. See
• 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
• Personal representative: means an executor, administrator, or special administrator, or a person who performs substantially the same function as an executor, administrator, or special administrator under law of this State other than this chapter. See
• Probate: Proving a will
• real estate: shall include lands, tenements, and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interests therein, and pews or slips in places of public worship shall be treated as real estate. See
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See
• Terms-of-service agreement: means an agreement that controls the relationship between a user and a custodian. See
• User: means a person who has an account with a custodian. See