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Vermont Title Standards

(c) 2024 Vermont Bar Association. All rights reserved. Re-published with permission.

Editor’s Preface – September 2024

The first version of Vermont’s Standards of Title was adopted by the Vermont Bar Association Board of Bar Managers on March 18, 1999. The Title Standards Committee is a subcommittee of the VBA’s Real Property committee.

• Title Standards adopted March 18, 1999.
• Changes were made and approved in 2003.
• Changes were made and approved in 2008.
• Changes were made and approved in September 2010

1. Standard 6.4 was amended.
2. Standard 9.1 was re-formatted.
3. Standard 15.1 was adopted.
4. Standard 19.1 was adopted.

• Changes were made and approved in September 2012

1. Standard 2.2 was amended to add a Comment.
2. Standard 6.4 was amended to revise a Comment.
3. Standard 9.1 was amended to add a Comment.
4. Standard 13.4 was amended to revise a Comment.
5. Standard 16.1 was adopted.
6. Standard 16.2 was adopted.
7. Standard 17.2 was adopted.
8. Standard 19.1 was amended to revise the Standard and add a Comment
9. Standard 21.1 was adopted.
10. Standard 21.2 was adopted.

• Changes were made and approved September 2014

1. Standard 6.5 was amended to add Comment 8.
2. Standard 10.1 was adopted.
3. Standard 14.1 was amended and Comments revised.
4. Standard 16.2 was amended to correct a citation.
5. Standard 18.1 was amended, and a Comment added.
6. Standard 19.1 Comments were revised.
7. Standard 27.1 Comment was revised.

• Changes were made and approved in September 2016

1. Standard 1.1 – new text added to the Standard
2. Standard 2.2 – new text added to the Standard
3. Standard 2.2 – new text added to Comment 1
4. Standard 2.2 – new text added to Comment 4
5. Standard 2.2 – new text added to Comment 5
6. Standard 2.3 – new Comment added
7. Standard 6.4 – Comment 5 revised
8. Standard 6.5 – new Comment added
9. Standard 7.1 – new Comment added
10. Standard 12.1 – new Standard added
11. Standard 13. 1 – Comment 4 – material revision
12. Standard 14.1 – Comment 2 – minor revision
13. Standard 16.2 – Comment 8 – minor revision
14. Standard 16.2 – new Comment added
15. Standard 19.1 – new Comment added

• Changes were made and approved September 2018

1. Standard 2.2 – new text added to Comment 8
2. Standard 3.1 – new Standard added
3. Standard 6.4 – Comment 6 added
4. Standard 14.1 – Comment 8 removed, new Comments added, Comments renumbered
5. Standard 16.2 – Comment 14 added
6. Standard 17.3 – new Standard added
7. Standard 17.4 – new Standard added
8. Standard 17.5 – new Standard added
9. Standard 18.1 – Comment 9 added
10. Standard 18.6 – new Standard added
11. Standard 18.7 – new Standard added
12. Standard 19.1 – Comment 8 revised, Comment 9 added
13. Standard 23.1 – Comment 6 added

• Changes were made and approved September 2020

1. Standard 2.2 – Comment 5 revised, Comment 11 added
2. Standards 5.1-5.6 added
3. Standard 6.4 – Standard Revised, Comment 6 Revised, Comment 7 added
4. Standard 9.1 – Comment 1 revised
5. Standard 14.1 – Standard revised, Comment 10 revised, Comment 11 added
6. Standard 15.1 – Standard revised, Comment 2 revised, Comment 5 added
7. Standard 16.2 – Comment 5 and 14 revised
8. Standard 23.1 – Comment 7 added
9. Standard 29.1 added
10. Standard 30.1 added

• Changes were made and approved September 2022

  1. Standard 2.6 – Revised
  2. Standard 2.7 – Relocated to Standard 32.2
  3. Standard 6.4 – Comment 8 added
  4. Standard 6.5 – Comment 1 revised, Comment 10 added
  5. Standard 9.1 – Comment 6 revised
  6. Standard 9.2 – Added
  7. Standard 11.1 – Revised
  8. Standard 13.1 – Revised, Comment 2 revised, Comment 5 removed
  9. Standard 15.1 – Comment 6 added
  10. Standard 16.2 – Revised, Comment 6 revised, Comment 15 added, Comment 16 added
  11. Standard 17.4 – Comment 1 revised
  12. Standard 18.3 – Revised, Comment 1 revised, Comment 2 removed, Comment 3 revised
  13. Standard 30.2 – Added
  14. Chapter 31 – Added
  15. Standard 31.1 – Added
  16. Standard 31.2 – Added
  17. Chapter 32 – Added
  18. Standard 32.1 – Added
  19. Standard 32.2 – Added
  20. Standard 32.3- Added
  21. Chapter 33 – Added
  22. Standard 33.1 – Added
  23. Standard 33.2 – Added
  24. Standard 33.3 – Added

• Changes were made and approved September 2024

  1. Standard 6.4 – Comment 7 Revised
  2. Standard 6.5 – Comments 6,7,8,9 and 10 Revised
  3. Standard 13.1 – Standard Revised
  4. Standard 13.2 – Standard Revised (Grammar)
  5. Standard 14.1 – Comment 11 Revised
  6. Standard 15.1 – Comment 7 Added
  7. Standard 18.8 – Added
  8. Standard 30.3 – Added
  9. Standard 30.4 – Added
  10. Standard 31.3 – Added
  11. Standard 32.3 – Comments 5 and 6 were added
  12. Standard 32.4 – Added
  13. Standard 32.5 – Added
  14. Standard 34.1 – Added

2014 Editor: Andy Mikell, Chair – Title Standards Subcommittee (2007-2014)

2016, 2018, 2020, 2024 Editor: Jim Knapp, Recorder of Title Standards (1990-2013 and 2015- current)