Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 14 Sec. 2921

  • 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.
  • Personal estate: shall include all property other than real estate. 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

§ 2921. Accounts, time

Within one year after his or her appointment and annually thereafter and at such other times as the Probate Division of the Superior Court directs, a guardian whose ward has real or personal estate shall render and settle with the court an account of the proceeds and expenditure of his or her ward’s estate. At the expiration of his or her trust, such guardian shall render and settle with the Probate Division of the Superior Court his or her account of the property of his or her ward, including the income and proceeds of the sale of his or her personal and real estate, and pay over and deliver to persons entitled to the same the estate and effects remaining in his or her hands, or due from him or her on such settlements. (Amended 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 238a, eff. Feb. 1, 2011.)