Vermont § 623 Joint tenants

Vermont Statutes

§ 623 — Joint tenants

Vermont § 623

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, § 623 (2026).

Text

Where there is not sufficient evidence that two joint tenants or tenants by the entirety have died otherwise than simultaneously, the property so held shall be distributed one-half as if one had survived and one-half as if the other had survived. If there are more than two joint tenants and all of them have so died, the property thus distributed shall be in the proportion that one bears to the whole number of joint tenants.

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Where there is not sufficient evidence that two joint tenants or tenants by the entirety have died otherwise than simultaneously, the property so held shall be distributed one-half as if one had survived and one-half as if the other had survived. If there are more than two joint tenants and all of them have so died, the property thus distributed shall be in the proportion that one bears to the whole number of joint tenants.