§ 3011. Actions Trustee process may be used in any civil action commenced in a Superior Court except in actions for malicious prosecution, libel, slander, or alienation of affections. (Amended 1971, No. 185 (Adj. Sess.), § 77, eff. March 29, 1972; 1973, No. 193 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 9, 1974; 1973, No. 249 […]
§ 3012. Tort actions; arrest (a) [Repealed.] (b) A person against whom an action of tort is commenced by trustee process shall not be arrested or imprisoned on an execution issued on a judgment recovered in such action until final entry has been made with respect to all persons summoned as trustees, and until any […]
§ 3013. Who may be summoned as trustee generally; property subject to process A person or corporation, or the State of Vermont by service of process upon the State Treasurer, may be summoned as a trustee of the defendant. The goods, effects, or credits of the defendant which are in the hands of such trustee […]
§ 3014. Maker or indorser of negotiable paper; exemptions Negotiable paper may be attached by and the same shall be subject to the operation of the trustee process, unless the same had been negotiated and notice thereof given to the maker or indorser before the service of the trustee process on him or her. Negotiable […]
§ 3015. Executor or administrator A debt or legacy due from an executor or administrator, and other goods, effects, or credits in his or her hands, may be attached by trustee process.
§ 3016. Nonresidents summoned as trustees A person shall not be summoned as a trustee, unless at the time of the service of the writ he or she resides in the State. However, debts due and owing from a person resident outside the State, or from a number of persons, part or all of whom […]
§ 3017. Foreign railroad corporations as trustees A foreign railroad corporation, operating a railroad in whole or in part within this State, may be summoned as a trustee of a person to whom such corporation is indebted, in an action brought to recover a debt contracted within this State. Service of process in such cause […]
§ 3018. Debts absolutely due, but not payable Any money or other thing due the defendant may be attached by trustee process before it has become payable, provided it is due absolutely and without contingency. The trustee shall not be compelled to pay or deliver it before the time fixed by the contract.
§ 3019. Debts contingent; judgment subject to execution A person shall not be adjudged a trustee by reason of any money or other thing due from him or her to the principal defendant, unless it is due absolutely and without contingency at the time of the service of the writ upon him or her, or […]
§ 3020. Exemptions from trustee process generally The following named bodies corporate and persons shall not be liable or chargeable on trustee process: (1) A fire insurance company on account of a sum due from such company to the defendant in consequence of loss by fire of property exempt from attachment and execution; (2) A […]
§ 3021. Debts reduced by sums owing defendant’s workmen In all cases where a principal defendant is indebted to other persons for work done in the performance of a contract out of which the trustee’s indebtedness arises, there shall be exempt from the trustee process, on an action brought for the recovery of debts not […]
§ 3022. Assignment of future earnings; validity as against trustee process; recording An assignment of future earnings shall not be valid against trustee process unless executed in writing and made to secure a debt of an amount therein stated, contracted prior to or simultaneously with the execution of the assignment, or a debt for necessaries […]
§ 3023. Proceeds of property exempt from attachment Except as herein otherwise provided, a person shall not be liable on trustee process on account of a sum due or owing to the principal debtor for property sold or conveyed or delivered by him or her, which was exempt from attachment and execution at the time […]
§ 3024. Debt for property in part exempt When the sum due or owing to the principal debtor is in part for property exempt from attachment and execution and in part for property not so exempt, the sum exempt from attachment by the trustee process shall be the value of the property so exempt from […]
§ 3025. Proceeds of exempt property held for taxes Sections 3023 and 3024 of this title shall not apply to a trustee process instituted for the collection of taxes.
