Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 190B § 2-710

Current through Chapter 223 of the 2024 Legislative Session
Section 190B:2-710 - Worthier-title doctrine abolished

The doctrine of worthier title shall not exist in the commonwealth either as a rule of law or as a rule of construction. Language in a governing instrument describing the beneficiaries of a donative disposition as the transferor's "heirs", "heirs at law", "next of kin", "distributes", "relatives", or "family", or language of similar import, shall not create or presumptively create a reversionary interest in the transferor.

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 190B, § 2-710

Added by Acts 2008, c. 521,§ 9, eff. 7/1/2011.