§ 301. Intestate estate
(a) Any part of a decedent’s estate not effectively disposed of by will passes by intestate succession to the decedent’s heirs, except as modified by the decedent’s will.
(b) A decedent’s will may expressly exclude or limit the right of an individual or a class to inherit property. If such an individual or member of such a class survives the decedent, the share of the decedent’s intestate estate that would have passed to that individual or member of such a class passes subject to any such limitation or exclusion set forth in the will.
(c) Nothing in this section shall preclude the surviving spouse of the decedent from making the election and receiving the benefits provided by section 319 of this title. (Added 2009, No. 55, § 5, eff. June 1, 2009.)
Structure Vermont Statutes
Title 14 - Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations
Chapter 42 - Descent and Survivors' Rights
§ 302. Dower and curtesy abolished
§ 311. Share of surviving spouse
§ 312. Surviving spouse to receive household goods
§ 313. Surviving spouse; vessel, snowmobile, or all-terrain vehicle
§ 314. Share of heirs other than surviving spouse
§ 315. Parent and child relationship
§ 316. Allowances for surviving spouse and family during administration
§ 317. Allowance to children before payment of debts
§ 318. Allowance to children after payment of debts
§ 319. Elective share of surviving spouse; notice of rights
§ 320. Effect of divorce order
§ 321. Conveyance to defeat spouse’s interest
§ 322. Unlawful killing affecting inheritance
§ 323. Written waiver of spousal rights
§ 331. Degrees; how computed: kindred of half-blood
§ 332. Share of afterborn child
§ 333. Share of child or descendant of child omitted from will
§ 334. Afterborn and omitted child; from what part of estate share taken
§ 335. Beneficiary dying before testator; descendants to take
§ 336. Individual absent and unheard of; share of estate
§ 337. Requirement that individual survive decedent for 120 hours
§ 338. Distribution; order in which assets appropriated; abatement