Sec. 2720.
If an applicable statute or a governing instrument calls for a present or future distribution to or creates a present or future interest in a designated individual's "heirs", "heirs at law", "next of kin", "relatives", or "family" or language of similar import, the property passes to those persons, including the state, in the shares that would succeed to the designated individual's intestate estate under the intestate succession law of the designated individual's domicile if the designated individual died when the disposition is to take effect in possession or enjoyment. If the designated individual's surviving spouse is living, but is remarried at the time the disposition is to take effect in possession or enjoyment, the surviving spouse is not an heir of the designated individual.
History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
Structure Michigan Compiled Laws
Chapter 700 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code
Act 386 of 1998 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code (700.1101 - 700.8206)
Article II - Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers (700.2101...700.2959)
Section 700.2702 - Requirement of Survival by 120 Hours.
Section 700.2703 - Protection of Payors and Other Third Parties.
Section 700.2704 - Protection of Bona Fide Purchasers; Personal Liability of Recipient.
Section 700.2705 - Choice of Law as to Meaning and Effect of Governing Instrument.
Section 700.2706 - Power of Appointment; Meaning of Specific Reference Requirement.
Section 700.2707 - Class Gifts Construed to Accord With Intestate Succession.
Section 700.2708 - Definitions Regarding Beneficiary Designation.
Section 700.2709 - Substitute Gift.
Section 700.2710 - Multiple Substitute Gifts.
Section 700.2711 - Protection of Payors.
Section 700.2712 - Protection of Bona Fide Purchasers; Personal Liability of Recipient.
Section 700.2715 - Multiple Substitute Gifts.
Section 700.2716 - No Substitute Taker; Lapse.
Section 700.2718 - Representation; per Capita at Each Generation; per Stirpes.
Section 700.2719 - Worthier-Title Doctrine Abolished.
Section 700.2720 - Interests in “Heirs”.
Section 700.2721 - Construction as to Age of Majority.