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72-2-720: Worthier title doctrine abolished.
Where this section sits in the code
- TITLE 72. ESTATES, TRUSTS, AND FIDUCIARY RELATIONSHIPS
- CHAPTER 2. UPC -- INTESTACY, WILLS, AND DONATIVE TRANSFERS
- Part 7. 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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