Vermont Statutes Title 33 Sec. 404
Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 33 Sec. 404
- Decedent: A deceased person.
- Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
- Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
- following: when used by way of reference to a section of the law shall mean the next preceding or following section. See
- Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Month: shall mean a calendar month and "year" shall mean a calendar year and be equivalent to the expression "year of our Lord. 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
- Probate: Proving a will
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States may apply to the District of Columbia and any territory and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See
- Testate: To die leaving a will.
§ 404. State agencies to furnish information
(a) Any governmental official or agency in the State, when requested by the Department of Vermont Health Access, shall furnish to the Department information in the official’s or agency’s possession with reference to aid given or money paid or to be paid to any person or person’s spouse who is applying for or is receiving assistance or benefits from the Department of Vermont Health Access.
(b) The Commissioner of Taxes, when requested by the Commissioner of Vermont Health Access, and unless otherwise prohibited by federal law, shall compare the information furnished by an applicant or recipient of assistance with the State income tax returns filed by such person and shall report his or her findings to the Commissioner of Vermont Health Access. Each application for assistance shall contain a form of consent, executed by the applicant, granting permission to the Commissioner of Taxes to disclose such information to the Commissioner of Vermont Health Access.
(c) On the first day of each month, each unit of the Superior Court shall provide to the Commissioner of Vermont Health Access a list of all estates, including testate, intestate, and small estates, opened during the previous calendar month within the jurisdiction of that unit’s Probate Division. The list shall contain the following information for each estate:
(1) the decedent‘s full name;
(2) the decedent’s date of birth;
(3) the decedent’s date of death;
(4) the docket number;
(5) the date on which the estate was opened; and
(6) the full name and contact information for the executor or administrator or his or her legal representative. (Added 2017, No. 210 (Adj. Sess.), § 8, eff. June 1, 2018 (subsec. (c) eff. October 1, 2018).)