Vermont Statutes Title 14. Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations, § 1205. Classification of claims

(1) costs and expenses of administration;

(2) reasonable funeral, burial, and headstone expenses, and perpetual care, not to exceed $3,800.00 exclusive of governmental payments, and reasonable and necessary medical and hospital expenses of the last illness of the decedent, including compensation of persons attending him or her;

(3) wages due employees which have been earned within three months prior to the death of the decedent, not to exceed $300.00 to each claimant;

(4) all other claims; including the balance of wages due but unpaid under subdivision (3) of this subsection.