Massachusetts General Laws
Article II - Intestacy, Wills and Donative Transfers
Section 2-901 - Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities

Section 2–901. [Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities.]
(a) A nonvested property interest is invalid unless:
(1) when the interest is created, it is certain to vest or terminate no later than 21 years after the death of an individual then alive; or
(2) the interest either vests or terminates within 90 years after its creation.
(b) A general power of appointment not presently exercisable because of a condition precedent is invalid unless:
(1) when the power is created, the condition precedent is certain to be satisfied or becomes impossible to satisfy no later than 21 years after the death of an individual then alive; or
(2) the condition precedent either is satisfied or becomes impossible to satisfy within 90 years after its creation.
(c) A nongeneral power of appointment or a general testamentary power of appointment is invalid unless:
(1) when the power is created, it is certain to be irrevocably exercised or otherwise to terminate no later than 21 years after the death of an individual then alive; or
(2) the power is irrevocably exercised or otherwise terminates within 90 years after its creation.
(d) In determining whether a nonvested property interest or a power of appointment is valid under subsection (a)(1), (b)(1), or (c)(1), the possibility that a child will be born to an individual after the individual's death is disregarded.
(e) If, in measuring a period from the creation of a trust or other property arrangement, language in a governing instrument (i) seeks to disallow the vesting or termination of any interest or trust beyond, (ii) seeks to postpone the vesting or termination of any interest or trust until, or (iii) seeks to operate in effect in any similar fashion upon, the later of (A) the expiration of a period of time not exceeding 21 years after the death of the survivor of specified lives in being at the creation of the trust or other property arrangement or (B) the expiration of a period of time that exceeds or might exceed 21 years after the death of the survivor of lives in being at the creation of the trust or other property arrangement, that language is inoperative to the extent it produces a period of time that exceeds 21 years after the death of the survivor of the specified lives.

Structure Massachusetts General Laws

Massachusetts General Laws

Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations

Title II - Descent and Distribution, Wills, Estates of Deceased Persons and Absentees, Guardianship, Conservatorship and Trusts

Chapter 190b - Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code

Article II - Intestacy, Wills and Donative Transfers

Section 2-101 - Intestate Estate

Section 2-102 - Share of Spouse

Section 2-103 - Share of Heirs Other Than Surviving Spouse

Section 2-105 - No Taker

Section 2-106 - Representation

Section 2-107 - Kindred of Half Blood

Section 2-108 - Afterborn Heirs

Section 2-109 - Advancements

Section 2-110 - Debts to Decedent

Section 2-111 - Alienage

Section 2-112 - Dower and Curtesy Abolished

Section 2-113 - Individuals Related to Decedent Through Two Lines

Section 2-114 - Parent and Child Relationship

Section 2-301 - Entitlement of Spouse; Premarital Will

Section 2-302 - Omitted Children

Section 2-401 - Applicable Law

Section 2-403 - Exempt Property

Section 2-404 - Discretionary Family Allowance

Section 2-405 - Source, Determination, and Documentation

Section 2-501 - Who May Make Will

Section 2-502 - Execution of Wills

Section 2-504 - Self-Proved Will

Section 2-505 - Who May Witness

Section 2-506 - Choice of Law as to Execution

Section 2-507 - Revocation by Writing or by Act

Section 2-508 - Revocation by Change of Circumstances

Section 2-509 - Revival of Revoked Will

Section 2-510 - Incorporation by Reference

Section 2-511 - Testamentary Additions to Trusts

Section 2-512 - Events of Independent Significance

Section 2-513 - Separate Writing Identifying Devise of Certain Types of Tangible Property

Section 2-514 - Contracts Concerning Succession

Section 2-515 - Deposit of Will With Court in Testator's Lifetime

Section 2-516 - Duty of Custodian of Will; Liability

Section 2-517 - Penalty Clause for Contest

Section 2-601 - Scope

Section 2-602 - Will May Pass All Property and After–acquired Property

Section 2-603 - Anti-Lapse; Deceased Devisee; Class Gifts

Section 2-604 - Failure of Testamentary Provision

Section 2-605 - Increase in Devised Securities; Accessions

Section 2-606 - Nonademption of Specific Devises; Unpaid Proceeds of Sale, Condemnation, or Insurance; Sale by Conservator or Agent

Section 2-607 - Nonexoneration

Section 2-608 - Exercise of Power of Appointment

Section 2-609 - Ademption by Satisfaction

Section 2-610 - Annuities

Section 2-701 - Scope

Section 2-702 - Requirement of Survival

Section 2-703 - Choice of Law as to Meaning and Effect of Donative Dispositions

Section 2-704 - Taxes on Qtips

Section 2-705 - Class Gifts Construed to Accord With Intestate Succession

Section 2-706 - Life Insurance; Retirement Plan; Account With Pod Designation; Transfer-on-Death Registration; Deceased Beneficiary

Section 2-707 - Survivorship With Respect to Future Interests Under Terms of Trust; Substitute Takers

Section 2-708 - Class Gifts to ''descendants'', ''issue'', or ''heirs of the Body''; Form of Distributions if None Specified

Section 2-709 - Representation; per Capita at Each Generation; per Stirpes

Section 2-710 - Worthier Title Doctrine Abolished

Section 2-711 - Future Interests in ''heirs'' and Like

Section 2-801 - Disclaimer of Property Interests

Section 2-802 - Effect of Divorce, Annulment, and Decree of Separation

Section 2-803 - Effect of Homicide on Intestate Succession, Wills, Trusts, Joint Assets, Life Insurance, and Beneficiary Designation

Section 2-804 - Revocation of Probate and Nonprobate Transfers by Divorce; No Revocation by Other Changes of Circumstances

Section 2-901 - Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities

Section 2-902 - When Nonvested Property Interest or Power of Attorney Appointment Created

Section 2-903 - Reformation

Section 2-904 - Exclusions From Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities

Section 2-905 - Prospective Application

Section 2-906 - Supersession