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.
Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 18-C, § 2-710
Worthier-title doctrine abolished
PL 2017, c. 402, Pt
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