{"data":{"id":"us-vt/4-v.s.a.-35","jurisdiction":"us-vt","citation":"4 V.S.A. § 35","heading":"Jurisdiction; Probate Division","body":"The Probate Division shall have jurisdiction of:\n(1) the probate of wills;\n(2) the settlement of estates;\n(3) the administration of trusts pursuant to Title 14A;\n(4) trusts of absent persons’ estates;\n(5) charitable, cemetery, and philanthropic trusts;\n(6) the appointment of guardians, and of the powers, duties, and rights of guardians and wards;\n(7) proceedings concerning 18 V.S.A. chapter 231;\n(8) accountings of attorneys-in-fact where no guardian has been appointed and the agent has reason to believe the principal is incompetent;\n(9) adoptions and relinquishment for adoption;\n(10) uniform gifts to minors;\n(11) changes of name;\n(12) issuance of new birth certificates and amendment of birth certificates;\n(13) correction or amendment of civil marriage certificates and death certificates;\n(14) emergency waiver of premarital medical certificates;\n(15) proceedings relating to cemetery lots;\n(16) trusts relating to community mausoleums or columbaria;\n(17) civil actions brought under 18 V.S.A. chapter 107, subchapter 3, relating to disposition of remains;\n(18) proceedings relating to the conveyance of a homestead interest of a spouse under a legal disability;\n(19) the issuance of declaratory judgments;\n(20) issuance of certificates of public good authorizing the civil marriage of persons under 16 years of age;\n(21) appointment of administrators to discharge mortgages held by deceased mortgagees;\n(22) appointment of trustees for persons confined under sentences of imprisonment;\n(23) fixation of compensation and expenses of boards of arbitrators of death taxes of Vermont domiciliaries;\n(24) emancipation of minors proceedings filed pursuant to 12 V.S.A. chapter 217;\n(25) grandparent visitation proceedings under 15 V.S.A. chapter 18;\n(26) other matters as provided by law; and\n(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.","path":["Title 4: Judiciary","Chapter 001: Supreme Court"],"source_url":"https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/04/001/00035","current_through":"2025 session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T12:21:21Z","sha256":"bd96a25d84f44258fc5b2548b49c3a50e730ad2018d1e01e05df01a379ec996c","source_id":"us-vt","stale":false,"prev":"us-vt/4-v.s.a.-34","next":"us-vt/4-v.s.a.-36"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}