72-2-720. Worthier title doctrine abolished. 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.
History: En. Sec. 69, Ch. 494, L. 1993.
Structure Montana Code Annotated
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
72-2-708. through 72-2-710 reserved
72-2-712. Requirement of survival by 120 hours
72-2-713. Choice of law as to meaning and effect of governing instrument
72-2-715. Class gifts construed to accord with intestate succession
72-2-717. Survivorship with respect to future interests under terms of trust -- substitute takers
72-2-719. Representation -- per capita at each generation -- per stirpes