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AS 13.12.710: Worthier-title doctrine abolished.
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions.
- Chapter 12. Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers.
- Article 8. Rules of Construction Applicable to Wills and Other Governing Instruments.
The doctrine of worthier title is abolished as a rule of law and as a rule of construction. Language in a governing instrument describing the beneficiaries of a disposition as the transferor's “heirs,” “heirs at law,” “next of kin,” “distributees,” “relatives,” or “family,” or language of similar import, does not create or presumptively create a reversionary interest in the transferor.
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