Vermont Statutes Annotated

Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 15, § 591 (2026)

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Subchapter 003 : PROCEEDINGS GENERALLY

(Cite as: 15 V.S.A. § 591)

§ 591. Jurisdiction and power of courts

Superior Courts shall hear and determine complaints for divorce and for affirming or annulling the civil marriage contract and may issue process of attachment, execution, and other proper process necessary for the dispatch and final determination of such causes. The judges of the Superior Court shall be triers of questions of fact as well as of law. Their determination of questions of fact shall be final, and exceptions may be taken and questions of law heard in the Supreme Court as in other causes. (Amended 1973, No. 193 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 9, 1974; 2009, No. 3, § 12a, eff. Sept. 1, 2009.)

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1981–2022 · leading case: Aron C. Vance v. Miranda Locke, 2022 VT 23 (Vt. 2022).

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Aron C. Vance v. Miranda Locke, 2022 VT 23 (Vt. 2022). “15 V.S.A. § 591. It also tasked the family division with determining what parental arrangement is in the child’s best interests—a mixed question of fact and law.”

Ragosta v. State of Vt., 556 F. Supp. 220 (D. Vt. 1981). · cites it 2× “and may issue process of attachment, execution and other proper process necessary for the dispatch and final determination of such causes.”

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