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VT · Revocable Living Trust
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Vermont living trust requirements
Special notes for Vermont
- 14A V.S.A. §505(c), effective April 24, 2025, extends tenancy-by-the-entirety creditor protection to property held by spouses in a revocable or irrevocable trust when both spouses are current beneficiaries and the trust satisfies the statutory conditions. The trust-held property keeps the same protection from individual-spouse creditors and the same treatment in bankruptcy as if held outside the trust as tenants by the entirety.
How it works
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Answer a few questions
About your assets, trustees, and beneficiaries.
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Download your trust
A complete, personalized revocable living trust, formatted for Vermont.
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Sign and fund
Sign the trust. Fund it by transferring assets into its name (notarization strongly recommended if real estate is involved).
Signing a Vermont living trust
No formal execution requirements beyond settlor signature; notarization strongly recommended when funding real property
Tenancy by the entirety
Vermont recognizes tenancy by the entirety. It's a form of co-ownership available only to married couples that provides automatic survivorship and creditor protection from individual debts. When you transfer such property into a revocable trust, you may lose the tenancy-by-entirety protection unless your trust is drafted to preserve it.
Funding Vermont real estate into the trust
To transfer Vermont real estate into your trust, you sign a new deed conveying the property from yourself to yourself as trustee, then record the deed with the Town Clerk of the town where any deeded Trust property lies for the county where the property is located. The trust does not control real estate unless the deed transfer is recorded.
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