Vermont § 35 - Jurisdiction

§ 35. Jurisdiction

• ; Probate Division The Probate Division shall have jurisdiction of: (1) the probate of wills; (2) the settlement of estates; (3) the administration of trusts pursuant to Title 14A; (4) trusts of absent persons’ estates; (5) charitable, cemetery, and philanthropic trusts; (6) the appointment of guardians, and of the powers, duties, and rights of guardians and
  wards; (7) proceedings concerning 18 V.S.A. chapter 231; (8) accountings of attorneys-in-fact where no guardian has been appointed and the agent
  has reason to believe the principal is incompetent; (9) adoptions and relinquishment for adoption; (10) uniform gifts to minors; (11) changes of name; (12) issuance of new birth certificates and amendment of birth certificates; (13) correction or amendment of civil marriage certificates and death certificates; (14) emergency waiver of premarital medical certificates; (15) proceedings relating to cemetery lots; (16) trusts relating to community mausoleums or columbaria; (17) civil actions brought under 18 V.S.A. chapter 107, subchapter 3, relating to disposition of remains; (18) proceedings relating to the conveyance of a homestead interest of a spouse under a
  legal disability; (19) the issuance of declaratory judgments; (20) issuance of certificates of public good authorizing the civil marriage of persons
  under 16 years of age; (21) appointment of administrators to discharge mortgages held by deceased mortgagees; (22) appointment of trustees for persons confined under sentences of imprisonment; (23) fixation of compensation and expenses of boards of arbitrators of death taxes of Vermont
  domiciliaries; (24) emancipation of minors proceedings filed pursuant to 12 V.S.A. chapter 217; (25) grandparent visitation proceedings under 15 V.S.A. chapter 18; (26) other matters as provided by law; and (27) concurrent with the Family Division, special immigration judicial determinations regarding
  the custody and care of children within the meaning of the federal Immigration and
  Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(27)(J) and 8 C.F.R. § 204.11) issued pursuant to 14 V.S.A. chapter 111, subchapter 14. (Added 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 7f, eff. Feb. 1, 2011; amended 2019, No. 167 (Adj. Sess.), § 28, eff. Oct. 7, 2020.)