Lamoille County Gift Deed (Reserving Life Estate) Form
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Lamoille County Gift Deed (Reserving Life Estate) Form
Fill in the blank Gift Deed (Reserving Life Estate) form formatted to comply with all Vermont recording and content requirements.
Lamoille County Gift Deed (Reserving Life Estate) Guide
Line by line guide explaining every blank on the Gift Deed (Reserving Life Estate) form.
Lamoille County Completed Example of the Gift Deed (Reserving Life Estate) Document
Example of a properly completed Vermont Gift Deed (Reserving Life Estate) document for reference.
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Where to Record Your Documents
Town Clerk of Belvidere
Belvidere, Vermont 05442
Hours: Tu, W, Th 8:30 - 3:30
Phone: (802) 644-6621
Town Clerk of Cambridge
Jeffersonville, Vermont 05464
Hours: M-F 8:00 - 4:00
Phone: (802) 644-2251
Town Clerk of Eden
Eden Mills, Vermont 05653
Hours: M-Th 8:00 to 4:00
Phone: (802) 635-2528
Town Clerk of Elmore
Lake Elmore, Vermont 05657
Hours: Tu through Th 9:00 to 3:00
Phone: (802) 888-2637
Town Clerk of Hyde Park
Hyde Park, Vermont 05655
Hours: M-F 8:00 - 4:00
Phone: (802) 888-2300 x1
Town Clerk of Johnson
Johnson, Vermont 05656
Hours: M-F 7:30 to 4:00
Phone: (802) 635-2611
Town Clerk of Morristown
Morrisville, Vermont 05661
Hours: M-F 8:30 to 4:30; W until 12:00 only
Phone: (802) 888-6370
Town Clerk of Stowe
Stowe, Vermont 05672
Hours: M-F 8:00 to 4:30
Phone: (802) 253-6133
Town Clerk of Waterville
Waterville, Vermont 05492
Hours: M, Tu, Th 9:00 - 1:30
Phone: (802) 644-8865
Town Clerk of Wolcott
Wolcott, Vermont 05680
Hours: Tue 8:00 to 6:00, Wed-Fri 8:00 to 4:00
Phone: (802) 888-2746
Lamoille County Clerk
Hyde Park, Vermont 05655
Hours: M-Th 7:00 to 12:00
Phone: (802) 888-0631
Recording Tips for Lamoille County:
- Bring extra funds - fees can vary by document type and page count
- Recorded documents become public record - avoid including SSNs
- Recording early in the week helps ensure same-week processing
Cities and Jurisdictions in Lamoille County
Properties in any of these areas use Lamoille County forms:
- Belvidere Center
- Eden
- Eden Mills
- Hyde Park
- Jeffersonville
- Johnson
- Lake Elmore
- Morrisville
- Moscow
- North Hyde Park
- Stowe
- Waterville
- Wolcott
Hours, fees, requirements, and more for Lamoille County
How do I get my forms?
Forms are available for immediate download after payment. The Lamoille 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 Lamoille County?
Yes. Our form blanks are guaranteed to meet or exceed the applicable formatting requirements used for recording in Lamoille 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 Lamoille 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 Lamoille County?
Recording fees in Lamoille County vary. Contact the recorder's office at (802) 644-6621 for current fees.
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A Vermont gift deed reserving a life estate passes the family home, camp, or land to the next generation now, while the giver keeps the legal right to live there for life. This form prepares that deed for one Vermont owner: the grantor conveys the property as a gift, reserves a common-law life estate, and the named grantee takes a vested remainder that ripens into full ownership, outside probate, when the life estate ends at the grantor's death.
A gift now, possession later
The deed divides ownership along a timeline. From delivery, the grantor holds a life estate: the exclusive right to occupy and use the property, and to its rents and income, for the rest of the grantor's natural life. The grantee holds the remainder from the same moment, a present property interest that waits for possession. At the grantor's death the life estate simply ends, and the grantee holds the property outright without probate administration of the parcel. Because the transfer is donative, the deed recites love and affection rather than a purchase price, and it states that it conveys without covenant or warranty of title, the posture Vermont law leaves to the deed's own text since no statute implies covenants into a Vermont deed.
A vested remainder, not a revocable arrangement
The reservation here is the traditional common-law life estate, and the deed says so on its face: no power is reserved to sell, convey, or mortgage the property without the grantee's joinder, and the instrument is not an enhanced life estate deed under 27 V.S.A. chapter 6, Vermont's statute for reserved-power deeds. The certainty runs in both directions. The grantee's remainder is vested and safe from later changes of heart, and by the same token the grantor cannot take the gift back or deal with the full title alone; a later sale or mortgage of the whole property takes both signatures. The completed example shows the reservation, the gift conveyance, and the statutory references exactly as they read on a finished deed.
Who signs, and the homestead joinder
The form recites one grantor, who signs before a notary public; Vermont requires no witnesses on a deed, and 27 V.S.A. Section 341 makes the notarial acknowledgment and town recording the operative formalities. A parent conveying the home place to a child while continuing to live in it, or an owner passing a woodlot or camp to family with continued lifetime use, presents the single-owner pattern this deed recites. The grantee section accepts one or more grantees together with the co-ownership form they take, and the guide walks through Vermont's forms, from tenancy in common to joint tenancy and tenancy by the entirety. Because a married owner's homestead moves only with the spouse's joinder under 27 V.S.A. Section 141, the form carries a labeled spouse joinder signature block, and it carries a separate acknowledgment certificate for each signer on the Vermont statutory short form, so the grantor and a joining spouse may acknowledge on different dates or before different notaries.
Recording in the town, with the transfer tax return
Vermont records land instruments town by town, not by county, so the deed goes to the clerk of the town or city where the land lies, at fifteen dollars per page. Until recorded, a Vermont deed holds the estate only against the grantor and the grantor's heirs, so recording is what secures the gift against everyone else. One filing controls the counter: a completed Vermont Property Transfer Tax Return, Form PTT-172, accompanies the deed, and the town clerk cannot record without it. For a gift, the tax value is fair market value rather than the recited consideration, and Vermont exempts no-consideration transfers between spouses, parent and child or the child's spouse, and grandparent and grandchild or the grandchild's spouse; the exemption is claimed right on the return. The guide's recording section walks through the return, the Act 250 certificate that accompanies it, and the survey reference rule that reaches deeds citing a recorded plat.
The download includes the gift deed as a fillable blank PDF, a completed example that presents the whole deed prepared for a realistic Vermont fact pattern, and a plain-language guide explaining every numbered section, the signing formalities, and the recording steps. The materials are informational and are not legal advice; a Vermont attorney can apply these rules to a specific title or estate plan.
Important: Your property must be located in Lamoille County to use these forms. Documents should be recorded at the office below.
This Gift Deed (Reserving Life Estate) meets all recording requirements specific to Lamoille County.
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