| My Account |  |
Trustee Deed Form - Franklin County
Fill in the blank form formatted to comply with all recording and content requirements.
Included document last updated 9/30/2020
Trustee Deed Guide - Franklin County
Line by line guide explaining every blank on the form.
Included document last updated 9/23/2020
Completed Example of the Trustee Deed Document - Franklin County
Example of a properly completed form for reference.
Included document last updated 10/7/2020
*The Following Vermont and Franklin County supplemental forms are included as a courtesy with your order.
Vermont Disclosure Statement
This form is required to be filed with the local recorder if the property is being divided or partitioned. The form is complete and comes with line-by-line instructions.
Transfer Tax
A required form "Property Transfer Tax" (PTT-172) should be filed online through myVTax, the Department's online filing and paying system. If you file through myVTax, you'll always be using the most current form. If due, the online system will apply the correct tax rate.
Homestead Exemption
If you are a residential property owner in Vermont, you may qualify for a homestead exemption, this could reduce you property taxes significantly.
Notary Certificates
The supplemental forms in this section can be used as loose certificates by notaries in the state.
Including:
A trust is an alternate method of vesting title to real property. In a trust arrangement, a settlor transfers property to another (the trustee), who administers the trust for the benefit of a third (the beneficiary). These roles may be combined in a single individual, except as noted below. Trusts that take effect during a settlor's lifetime are called living (inter vivos) trusts, and trusts that take effect upon a settlor's death pursuant to the terms of a will are called testamentary trusts.
In Vermont, a valid trust is created when a settlor has a capacity to create a trust and indicates the intention to do so; the trust has a definite beneficiary and the terms of the trust are for the benefit of said beneficiary; the trustee has duties to perform; and the same person is not both the sole trustee and sole beneficiary of the trust (14A V.S.A. 4-402). Further, the trust's purposes must be lawful and possible to achieve (14A V.S.A. 4-404).
A living trust is an estate planning tool that benefits a settlor during his lifetime, and allows the settlor to specify how the trust's assets are to be administered and for the benefit of whom upon his death. In addition to statute, a Vermont living trust is governed by the terms established by the settlor in the trust instrument. This document is generally unrecorded so as to maintain the confidentiality of the estate plan. The instrument provides a scope of the trust and identifies the trustee and the successor trustee, designates the trust beneficiaries, and enumerates the trustee's powers, among other provisions.
Real property is transferred into a living trust by execution of a deed, which vests the subject property in the name of the trustee. In order to transfer the property out of the trust, the trustee, who retains legal title to the property, must execute a deed, referred to as a "Conveyance by Trustee of a Non-Probate Trust" by the Vermont Title Standards.
A deed conveying interest in real property into or out of trust "may be any form of deed" [2]. Typically, deeds out of a living trust are descriptively named "trustee's deeds," not to be confused with a trustee's deed pursuant to a sale of foreclosed property under a deed of trust.
Trustee's deeds may vary in the level of warranty the grantor intends to offer with the transfer, though the most common level of warranty issued in a trustee's deed is a limited warranty.
In Vermont, a limited warranty deed contains the explicit covenants only that the grantor has done nothing to encumber the property, and that the grantor will warrant and defend the title against the lawful claims of persons arising under, by, or through the grantor; in other words, the grantor "takes no responsibility for the state of the title prior to the time the grantor acquired the title".
A trustee executing a deed may provide the deed's recipient with a certificate of trust under 14A V.S.A. 10-1013, witnessing the trust's existence and the trustee's authority to convey the property. (See Title Standard 13.4 and 27 V.S.A. 351 for more information regarding a trustee's presumed authority to convey title.)
All conveyances must meet the requirements of form and content for instruments pertaining to real property in Vermont. A trustee's deed is signed by each executing trustee in the presence of a notary public before recording at the municipal level in the appropriate clerk's office.
Consult a lawyer who can address your specific situation when preparing a Vermont trustee's deed.
Get your Franklin County Trustee Deed form done right the first time with Deeds.com Uniform Conveyancing Blanks. At Deeds.com, we understand that your time and money are valuable resources, and we don't want you to face a penalty fee or rejection imposed by a county recorder for submitting nonstandard documents. We constantly review and update our forms to meet rapidly changing state and county recording requirements for roughly 3,500 counties.
The documents you receive here will meet, or exceed, the Franklin County recording requirements for formatting. If there's an issue caused by our formatting, we'll make it right and refund your payment.
4.8 out of 5 (1976 Reviews) October 22nd, 2020
Name: John R.
Review: 5stars for prompt and fast! Website needs work. Hard to navigate for first time users and hard to find where to pay. Emails are more clear than the "message center". Not sure what happened to my other documents, lol
Reply from Staff on October 22nd, 2020
Thank you for your feedback. We really appreciate it. Have a great day!
October 22nd, 2020
Name: Robert P.
Review: Excellent product. Wish I had found this site a week earlier. It would have saved me many hours of struggle and $40.00 in notary fees. Thanks and I will recommend to anyone needing forms.
Reply from Staff on October 22nd, 2020
Thank you for your feedback. We really appreciate it. Have a great day!
October 21st, 2020
Name: Cindy H.
Review: Loved it! Quick and easy, done in 24 hours.
Reply from Staff on October 21st, 2020
Thank you for your feedback. We really appreciate it. Have a great day!
October 21st, 2020
Name: Dominick D.
Review: Deed.com was easy to work with, not just a website, they have real people that speak to you. They were extremely helpful with a VERY difficult Northeast county. They made the process smooth and effortless.
Reply from Staff on October 21st, 2020
We appreciate your business and value your feedback. Thank you. Have a wonderful day!
October 21st, 2020
Name: Jonny C.
Review: Easy and fast
Reply from Staff on October 21st, 2020
Thank you!
October 21st, 2020
Name: Sylvia B.
Review: What a wonderful resource! Forms are so easy to use, made the process a breeze. Deeds even helped with the recording. Thank you.
Reply from Staff on October 21st, 2020
We appreciate your business and value your feedback. Thank you. Have a wonderful day!
October 20th, 2020
Name: Elizabeth P.
Review: Perfect quitclaim form. Easy to fill in with the required information and all the required information has a place (no easy feat in our county!). It is helpful that they include exhibit pages for larger blocks of information (our legal is 2 pages long). Great job folks!
Reply from Staff on October 20th, 2020
Thank you for the kind words Elizabeth. Have an amazing day!
October 20th, 2020
Name: David S.
Review: I downloaded the quit claim deed form and saved it on my computer. I opened it with Adobe and filled it out. The space for the legal description was too small (2 lines only) which did not allow enough room for the long property description that I had.
Reply from Staff on October 20th, 2020
Thank you for your feedback. We really appreciate it. Have a great day!
October 20th, 2020
Name: Jaime H.
Review: quick and easy
Reply from Staff on October 20th, 2020
Thank you!
October 20th, 2020
Name: Ken C.
Review: I did a Beneficiary Deed, package came with all forms and instructions. Recorder accepted first time. Ken C
Reply from Staff on October 20th, 2020
Thank you for your feedback Ken. We really appreciate it.