Vermont § 622 Beneficiaries

Vermont Statutes

§ 622 — Beneficiaries

Vermont § 622

Title 14Title 14: Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations

Ch. 47Chapter 047: Uniform Simultaneous Death Act

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Bluebook

Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 14, § 622 (2026).

Text

Where two or more beneficiaries are designated to take successively by reason of survivorship under another person’s disposition of property and there is not sufficient evidence that these beneficiaries have died otherwise than simultaneously, the property thus disposed of shall be divided into as many equal portions as there are successive beneficiaries and these portions shall be distributed respectively to those who would have taken in the event that each designated beneficiary had survived.

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Where two or more beneficiaries are designated to take successively by reason of survivorship under another person’s disposition of property and there is not sufficient evidence that these beneficiaries have died otherwise than simultaneously, the property thus disposed of shall be divided into as many equal portions as there are successive beneficiaries and these portions shall be distributed respectively to those who would have taken in the event that each designated beneficiary had survived.