Chittenden County Enhanced Life Estate Deed (Two Grantors) Form
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Chittenden County Enhanced Life Estate Deed (Two Grantors) Form
Fill in the blank Enhanced Life Estate Deed (Two Grantors) form formatted to comply with all Vermont recording and content requirements.
Chittenden County Enhanced Life Estate Deed (Two Grantors) Guide
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Chittenden County Completed Example of the Enhanced Life Estate Deed (Two Grantors) Document
Example of a properly completed Vermont Enhanced Life Estate Deed (Two Grantors) document for reference.
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Where to Record Your Documents
Town Clerk of Bolton
Waterbury, Vermont 05676
Hours: M-Th 8:00 - 4:00
Phone: (802) 434-5075
Chittenden County Clerk (for Buel's Gore)
Burlington, Vermont 05402
Hours: 7:30 to 4:00 M-F
Phone: (802) 951-5106
City Clerk of Burlington
Burlington, Vermont 05401
Hours: M-F 8:00 to 4:30
Phone: (802) 865-7000
Town Clerk of Charlotte
Charlotte, Vermont 05445
Hours: M-F 8:00 to 4:00
Phone: (802) 425-3071
Town Clerk of Colchester
Colchester, Vermont 05446
Hours: M-F 7:30 - 4:30
Phone: (802) 254-5520
Town Clerk of Essex
Essex Jct, Vermont 05452
Hours: M-F 7:30 - 4:30
Phone: (802) 879-0413
Town Clerk of Grand Isle
Grand Isle, Vermont 05458-0049
Hours: M-F 8:30 - 3:30; Tu 5:00 - 7:00; Sa 10:00 -12:00
Phone: (802) 372-8830
Town Clerk of Hinesburg
Hinesburg, Vermont 05461
Hours: M - F 8:00 to 4:00
Phone: (802) 482-2281
Town Clerk of Huntington
Huntington, Vermont 05462
Hours: M 8:00 - 7:00; Tu, W, Th 8:00 - 3:00
Phone: (802) 434-2023
Town Clerk of Jericho
Jericho, Vermont 05465
Hours: M-Th 8:00 - 4:00; F 8:00 - 1:30 (or by appointment)
Phone: (802) 899-4936 x1
Town Clerk of Milton
Milton, Vermont 05468
Hours: M-F 8:00 - 5:00
Phone: (802) 893-4111
Town Clerk of Richmond
Richmond, Vermont 05477
Hours: M 8:00 - 5:00; Tu - Th 8:00 - 4:00; F 8:00 - 12:00
Phone: (802) 434-2221/3139
Town Clerk of Shelburne
Shelburne, Vermont 05482
Hours: M - F 8:30 - 5:00
Phone: (802) 985-5116 x0
City Clerk of South Burlington
South Burlington, Vermont 05403
Hours: M-F 8:00 - 4:30
Phone: (802) 846-4105
Town Clerk of St. George
St. George, Vermont 05495
Hours: Mon - Wed 8:00 - 2:00; Th 4:30 - 6:30
Phone: (802) 482-5272
Town Clerk of Westford
Westford, Vermont 05494
Hours: M-F 8:30 - 4:30; Summer F 8:30 - 1:00
Phone: (802) 878-4587
Town Clerk of Williston
Williston, Vermont 05495
Hours: M-F 8:00 - 4:30
Phone: (802) 878-5121
City Clerk of Winooski
Winooski, Vermont 05404
Hours: M-F 7:30 - 4:30
Phone: (802) 655-6419
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Cities and Jurisdictions in Chittenden County
Properties in any of these areas use Chittenden County forms:
- Burlington
- Cambridge
- Charlotte
- Colchester
- Essex
- Essex Junction
- Fairfax
- Hinesburg
- Huntington
- Jericho
- Jonesville
- Milton
- Richmond
- Shelburne
- South Burlington
- Underhill
- Underhill Center
- Westford
- Williston
- Winooski
Hours, fees, requirements, and more for Chittenden County
How do I get my forms?
Forms are available for immediate download after payment. The Chittenden County forms will be in your account ready to download to your computer. An account is created for you during checkout if you don't have one. Forms are NOT emailed.
Are these forms guaranteed to be recordable in Chittenden County?
Yes. Our form blanks are guaranteed to meet or exceed the applicable formatting requirements used for recording in Chittenden County, including margin requirements, font requirements, and other layout standards. This guarantee applies to formatting, not to the legal sufficiency of information entered by the user or the suitability of a form for a particular transaction.
Can I reuse these forms?
Yes. You can reuse the forms for your personal use. For example, if you have multiple properties in Chittenden County you only need to order once.
What do I need to use these forms?
The forms are PDFs that you fill out on your computer. You'll need Adobe Reader (free software that most computers already have). You do NOT enter your property information online - you download the blank forms and complete them privately on your own computer.
Are there any recurring fees?
No. This is a one-time purchase. Nothing to cancel, no memberships, no recurring fees.
How much does it cost to record in Chittenden County?
Recording fees in Chittenden County vary. Contact the recorder's office at (802) 434-5075 for current fees.
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Two Vermont owners can sign one enhanced life estate deed that reserves, to themselves and to the survivor of them, a life estate and the full right to convey, while naming who takes the property when the second of them dies. This form prepares that two-grantor deed under 27 V.S.A. chapter 6, the Enhanced Life Estate Deed Act, using the operative language of the optional statutory form in section 660.
A reservation that runs to the survivor
The statutory reserved rights clause on this deed reads in the plural: the Grantors, or the survivor of them, reserve a common law life estate with the exclusive use, possession, and enjoyment of the property, together with the right to convey it. That wording is what carries the arrangement across the first death. When one grantor dies, nothing changes hands and nothing is filed in probate; the surviving grantor holds the same reserved life estate and the same unrestricted power to sell, mortgage, lease, gift, revise, or revoke, all without the grantees' signature, consent, or knowledge. Only at the death of the last surviving grantor does title vest in the grantees, outside probate and subject to encumbrances then of record.
Lifetime control with statutory certainty
Vermont wrote this instrument into statute in 2020, replacing a common law practice known locally as the lady bird deed, the Medicaid deed, or the life estate deed with reserved powers; the statute calls it an enhanced life estate deed, or ELE Deed. Section 654 states the lifetime effect directly: a recorded ELE deed does not affect the ownership rights of the grantors or their creditors, transfers no present interest to the grantees, and does not expose the property to the grantees' creditors. Section 655 adds that a grantee cannot sell or encumber the contingent remainder while a grantor lives; an attempt is void. The grantors revoke by recording a deed to themselves, or revise by recording a new deed that names all intended grantees, and a mortgage granted later encumbers the property without disturbing the deed. A revocation or revision instrument is prepared and recorded separately and is not included in this package.
The two-grantor configuration
The form recites exactly two record owners as grantors. Both sign, and the deed carries an acknowledgment certificate for each signer, so the two grantors may acknowledge on different dates, before different notaries, or in different states. The grantee section names one or more remainder takers and states the nature of tenancy in which they will hold when title vests: fee simple for a single grantee, or tenants in common, joint tenants with right of survivorship, or another recognized Vermont form for several. The statute supplies its own defaults when a grantee dies first, including a survivorship default for joint tenant grantees. Spouses holding a Vermont home as tenants by the entirety and planning for it to pass to their children present the pattern this deed recites, and two co-owners of a family camp consolidating its succession present another; where the grantors are married and the property is a homestead, the two signatures also carry the spousal joinder that 27 V.S.A. sections 141 and 349 describe. A sole owner's enhanced life estate deed follows a different single-grantor pattern than the two-grantor architecture this form recites.
Recording at the town clerk
Vermont records deeds by town or city, not by county, so this deed goes to the clerk of the municipality where the land lies, at fifteen dollars per page. The clerk cannot record it without a completed Vermont Property Transfer Tax Return, filed with its own fifteen dollar fee, and the statute makes a recorded enhanced life estate deed expressly subject to the property transfer tax. Where the deed is later revoked or revised, Vermont law supplies a petition route for refunding tax paid on the enhanced life estate interest. The deed is formatted for Vermont town land records, with the first page reserving space for the clerk's recording information.
The download includes the two-grantor deed as a fillable PDF, a completed example showing the entire document filled in for a realistic Chittenden County fact pattern, and a plain language guide that walks through every numbered section, the notarization, and the transfer tax return that accompanies recording. The materials are informational and are not legal advice.
Important: Your property must be located in Chittenden County to use these forms. Documents should be recorded at the office below.
This Enhanced Life Estate Deed (Two Grantors) meets all recording requirements specific to Chittenden County.
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