Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 14 > Chapter 111 > Subchapter 9 - Termination of Guardianship

• 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
• Agent: means an attorney-in-fact granted authority under a durable or nondurable power of attorney. See
• 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
• 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: includes executor, administrator, special administrator, trustee, conservator, guardian of a minor, guardian of a spendthrift, voluntary guardian of a person who has an infirmity and total or limited guardian of an adult with a developmental disability, but excludes one who is merely a guardian ad litem. 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.
• Guardian: means a person appointed by a court to manage the estate of a living individual. 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
• Person: means an individual, estate, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or other legal entity. See
• Person under guardianship: means an individual for whom a guardian has been appointed. See
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Power of attorney: means a record that grants an agent authority to act in the place of a principal. See
• Principal: means an individual who grants authority to an agent in a power of attorney. See
• Probate: Proving a will
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Trustee: means a fiduciary with legal title to property under an agreement or declaration that creates a beneficial interest in another. See
• User: means a person who has an account with a custodian. See