Events

2nd Annual Vermont
Elder Law Summit

3.0 Hours VT CLE Credit

2010 in Review (2 hours)

• Estate Taxes
• Health Care Reform
• Medicaid

Special Needs Trusts:
An Advanced Review (1 hour)

Date: Friday, Oct 8, 2010

Time: 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Location: Vermont Law School, South Royalton

Cost: $75 for am session (CLE)
$25 for pm session
VT NAELA lunch and Unprogram

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News

Judicial Reorganization

The Vermont's Probate Courts survived the 2009-2010 legislative session with each of Vermont’s fourteen counties still having its own Probate Court. With a focus on reducing costs and centralizing the organization of the court system, the Vermont Supreme Court's Commission on Judicial Operation had proposed reducing the number of probate judges to five full-time judges and having individual judges serve a wider geographic territory. The Vermont House bill would have reduced the number of Probate Judges to eight. The Senate held out for 14 Judges, to prevent more rural areas from losing access to a local court. The final version was based by both chambers on May 8, 2010. The Governor signed the bill on June 3, 2010.
Text of Act No. 154

Medicaid Rules

Until recently, the Medicaid regulations were found in the Medicaid Policy Manual and had an “M” prefix, e.g. the citizenship requirement for eligibility was found at M212. However, last year, the Agency of Human Services, which includes both DAIL and ESD/DCF, began a major reorganization of its rule numbering systems, along moving to a computer-based document management system. DCF Bulletin Number 08-20F, dated September 21, 2008 describes the changes and contains a list showing the where to find the old rules in the new numbering system.