Vermont § 351 - Estates and trusts; conveyances, satisfactions, grants, and releases

§ 351. Estates and trusts; conveyances, satisfactions, grants, and releases

• (a) A conveyance or grant of an interest in real or personal property made to the estate
  of a decedent, to the estate of a ward, to the ward’s guardian, or to a trust, including
  a trust in the form of a pension or profit-sharing plan, that names the estate, the
  guardian, or the trust as the grantee of the interest is a valid and effective conveyance
  or grant to the personal representative, to the ward, or to the trustee of the trust,
  in like manner and effect as if the ward, or the personal representative or trustee
  in his or her fiduciary capacity, had been named the grantee of the conveyance or
  grant. (b) A discharge, mortgage discharge, release, conveyance, grant, or satisfaction of an
  interest in real or personal property that is made by an estate, a guardian, or a
  trust described in subsection (a) of this section that names the estate, the guardian,
  or the trust as the holder or grantor of the interest and that is executed by the
  personal representative or trustee authorized to execute the instrument is valid in
  like manner and effect as if the personal representative, guardian, or trustee had
  been named the holder or the grantor in the instrument. (Added 2003, No. 150 (Adj. Sess.), § 3.)