What each source establishes
The Vermont guide rests on the source-backed rules this site can verify for the state: which simplified procedure exists and what it limits, what the court charges, how the person administering the estate may be paid, and the statutory creditor-deadline clocks the official text states.Every published rule below is quoted in the publisher’s own words rather than summarised.
Simplified-procedure rule
Vermont General Assembly · The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly. · Verified August 9, 2026
§ 1901. Commencement of small estate (a) When a decedent's estate has a fair market value of not more than $45,000.00 and consists entirely of personal property, provided that the estate may include a time-share estate as defined by 32 V.S.A. § 3619(a), an estate may be commenced by filing: (1) a petition to open a probate estate; (2) a list of interested persons; (3) the filing fee; (4) an original death certificate; (5) an inventory of the estate, including information or estimates available at the time of filing; (6) an affidavit of paid and outstanding funeral expenses and any other known or reasonably ascertainable debts of the decedent; (7) a bond without surety in the amount of the fair market value of the estate; and (8) the will, if any.
What was published from this source
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- ✓VT small-estate threshold and scopematched
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Court cost rule
Vermont Judiciary · Publisher states no currentness signal; manual session review required · Verified August 9, 2026
Filing fee for estate $10,000 or less $50.00 32 V.S.A. § 1434(a)(1) Filing fee for estate $10,001 to $50,000 $110.00 32 V.S.A. § 1434(a)(2) Filing fee for estate $50,001 to $150,000 $265.00 32 V.S.A. § 1434(a)(3) Filing fee for estate $150,001 to $500,000 $500.00 32 V.S.A. § 1434(a)(4) Filing fee for estate $500,001 to $1,000,000 $1000.00 32 V.S.A. § 1434(a)(5) Filing fee for estate $1,000,001 to $5,000,000 $1,750.00 32 V.S.A. § 1434(a)(6) (2015) Filing fee for estate $5,000,001 to $10,000,000 $2,500.00 32 V.S.A. § 1434(a)(7) Filing fee for estate greater than $10,000,000 $3,250.00 32 V.S.A. § 1434(a)(8)
What this means: Vermont's online statute page for 32 V.S.A. § 1434 served an empty section body on 2026-10-03, so these amounts are verified against the Vermont Judiciary's own published fee schedule, which cites each line to its § 1434 subdivision. The amounts are unchanged from the statute text verified on 2026-09-15.
What was published from this source
VT 32 V.S.A. § 1434(a)(1)-(8), as published in the Vermont Judiciary fee schedule
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- ✓VT estate fee bandsmatched
- ✓VT fee section identitymatched
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Court cost rule
Vermont Judiciary · Publisher states no currentness signal; manual session review required · Verified August 9, 2026
Affidavit procedure for small estates pursuant to Vermont Rule of Probate Procedure 80.3(h) $50.00 32 V.S.A. § 1434(a)(30)
What this means: Vermont's online statute page for 32 V.S.A. § 1434 served an empty section body on 2026-10-03, so these amounts are verified against the Vermont Judiciary's own published fee schedule, which cites each line to its § 1434 subdivision. The amounts are unchanged from the statute text verified on 2026-09-15.
What was published from this source
VT 32 V.S.A. § 1434(a)(30), as published in the Vermont Judiciary fee schedule
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- ✓VT small-estate affidavit $50 entry feematched
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Creditor deadline rule
Vermont General Assembly · The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly. · Verified August 9, 2026
§ 1201. Notice to creditors (a) The Probate Division of the Superior Court may issue an order excusing the executor or administrator from complying with the notice to creditors provisions of the Rules of Probate Procedure when it appears to the court that: (1) there are no debts existing against the decedent; or (2) that the debts against the decedent are all known to the executor or administrator and there are funds to pay them; or (3) the value of the estate does not exceed the sum of $2,500.00 and is assigned for the support of the surviving spouse.
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- ✓VT notice may be excusedmatched
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Executor compensation rule
Vermont General Assembly · The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly. · Verified August 9, 2026
§ 1143. Compensation of appointees Persons acting under the authority of the Probate Division of the Superior Court shall be paid as follows: (1) for each day's attendance by executor, administrator, trustee, agent, or guardian, on the business of their appointment, $4.00; (2) for each day's attendance of commissioners, appraisers, or committee, $4.00; and (3) the Probate Division of the Superior Court may allow in cases of unusual difficulty or responsibility such further sum as it judges reasonable.
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Creditor deadline rule
Vermont General Assembly · The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly. · Verified August 9, 2026
(1) within four months after the date of the first publication of notice to creditors if notice is given in compliance with the Rules of Probate Procedure; provided, however, that claims barred by the nonclaim statute of the decedent's domicile before the first publication for claims in this State are also barred in this State; (2) within one year after the decedent's death if notice to creditors has not been published or otherwise given as provided by the Rules of Probate Procedure.
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- ✓VT four-month publication barmatched
- ✓VT one-year no-notice barmatched
- ✓VT claim-limitations section identitymatched
- ✓section identitymatched
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