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MA Gen L ch II § 2-515 (2021)
2021 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 2-515 - Deposit of Will With Court in Testator's Lifetime

Section 2–515. [Deposit of Will With Court in Testator's Lifetime.]  A will may be deposited by the testator or the testator's agent with any court for safekeeping, under rules of the court. The will shall be sealed and kept confidential. During the testator's lifetime, a deposited will shall be delivered only to the testator or to a person authorized in writing signed by the testator to receive the will. A guardian of the estate or conservator may be allowed to examine a deposited will of a protected testator under procedures designed to maintain the confidential character of the document to the extent possible, and to ensure that it will be resealed and kept on deposit after the examination. Upon being informed of the testator's death, the court shall notify any person designated to receive the will and deliver it to that person on request; or the court may deliver the will to the appropriate court.
MA Gen L ch II § 2-906 (2021)
2021 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 2-906 - Supersession

Section 2–906. [Supersession.] This part supersedes the rule of the common law known as the rule against perpetuities.
MA Gen L ch II § 2-905 (2021)
2021 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 2-905 - Prospective Application

Section 2–905. [Prospective Application.]  (a) Except as extended by subsection (b), this part applies to a nonvested property interest or a power of appointment that is created on or after the effective date of this part. For purposes of this section, a nonvested property interest or a power of appointment created by the exercise of a power of appointment is created when the power is irrevocably exercised or when a revocable exercise becomes irrevocable.  (b) If a nonvested property interest or a power of appointment was created before the effective date of this part and is determined in a judicial proceeding, commenced on or after the effective date of this part, to violate the commonwealth's rule against perpetuities as that rule existed before the effective date of this part, a court upon the petition of an interested person may reform the disposition in the manner that most closely approximates the transferor's manifested plan of distribution and is within the limits of the rule against perpetuities applicable when the nonvested property interest or power of appointment was created.
MA Gen L ch II § 2-904 (2021)
2021 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 2-904 - Exclusions From Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities

Section 2–904. [Exclusions from Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities.]  Section 2–901 shall not apply to:  (1) a nonvested property interest or a power of appointment arising out of a nondonative transfer, except a nonvested property interest or a power of appointment arising out of (i) a premarital or postmarital agreement, (ii) a separation or divorce settlement, (iii) a spouse's election, (iv) a similar arrangement arising out of a prospective, existing, or previous marital relationship between the parties, (v) a contract to make or not to revoke a will or trust, (vi) a contract to exercise or not to exercise a power of appointment, (vii) a transfer in satisfaction of a duty of support, or (viii) a reciprocal transfer;  (2) a fiduciary's power relating to the administration or management of assets, including the power of a fiduciary to sell, lease, or mortgage property, and the power of a fiduciary to determine principal and income;  (3) a power to appoint a fiduciary;  (4) a discretionary power of a trustee to distribute principal before termination of a trust to a beneficiary having an indefeasibly vested interest in the income and principal;  (5) a nonvested property interest held by a charity, government, or governmental agency or subdivision, if the nonvested property interest is preceded by an interest held by another charity, government, or governmental agency or subdivision;  (6) a nonvested property interest in or a power of appointment with respect to a trust or other property arrangement forming part of a pension, profit-sharing, stock bonus, health, disability, death benefit, income deferral, or other current or deferred benefit plan for 1 or more employees, independent contractors, or their beneficiaries or spouses, to which contributions are made for the purpose of distributing to or for the benefit of the participants or their beneficiaries or spouses the property, income, or principal in the trust or other property arrangement, except a nonvested property interest or a power of appointment that is created by an election of a participant or a beneficiary or spouse; or  (7) a property interest, power of appointment, or arrangement that was not subject to the common-law rule against perpetuities or is excluded by another statute of the commonwealth.
MA Gen L ch II § 2-902 (2021)
2021 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 2-902 - When Nonvested Property Interest or Power of Attorney Appointment Created

Section 2–902. [When Nonvested Property Interest or Power of Attorney Appointment Created.]  (a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c) and in section 2–905(a), the time of creation of a nonvested property interest or a power of appointment is determined under general principles of property law.  (b) For purposes of this part, if there is a person who alone can exercise a power created by a governing instrument to become the unqualified beneficial owner of (i) a nonvested property interest or (ii) a property interest subject to a power of appointment described in section 2–901(b) or (c), the nonvested property interest or power of appointment is created when the power to become the unqualified beneficial owner terminates.  (c) For purposes of this part, a nonvested property interest or a power of appointment arising from a transfer of property to a previously funded trust or other existing property arrangement is created when the nonvested property interest or power of appointment in the original contribution was created.
MA Gen L ch II § 2-901 (2021)
2021 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 2-901 - 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.
MA Gen L ch II § 2-802 (2021)
2021 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 2-802 - Effect of Divorce, Annulment, and Decree of Separation

Section 2–802. [Effect of Divorce, Annulment, and Decree of Separation.]  (a) An individual who is divorced from the decedent is not a surviving spouse unless, by virtue of a subsequent marriage, the individual is married to the decedent at the time of death. A judgment of separation that does not terminate the status of husband and wife is not a divorce for purposes of this section.  (b) For purposes of parts 1 to 4, inclusive, of this article, and of section 3–203, a surviving spouse shall not include:  (1) an individual who obtains or consents to a final decree or judgment of divorce from the decedent or an annulment of their marriage, which decree or judgment is not recognized as valid in the commonwealth, unless subsequently they participate in a marriage ceremony purporting to marry each to the other or live together as husband and wife;  (2) an individual who, following an invalid decree or judgment of divorce or annulment obtained by the decedent, participates in a marriage ceremony with a third individual; or  (3) an individual who was a party to a valid proceeding concluded by an order purporting to terminate all marital property rights.
MA Gen L ch II § 2-711 (2021)
2021 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 2-711 - Future Interests in ''heirs'' and Like

Section 2–711. [Future Interests in ''Heirs'' and Like.]  If an applicable statute or a governing instrument calls for a future distribution to or creates a 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 commonwealth under section 2–105, and in such shares as 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 donative 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 interest is to take effect in possession or enjoyment, the surviving spouse is not an heir of the designated individual.
MA Gen L ch II § 2-710 (2021)
2021 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 2-710 - Worthier Title Doctrine Abolished

Section 2–710. [Worthier Title Doctrine Abolished.]  The doctrine of worthier title shall not exist in the commonwealth either as a rule of law or as a rule of construction. Language in a governing instrument describing the beneficiaries of a donative disposition as the transferor's ''heirs'', ''heirs at law'', ''next of kin'', ''distributes'', ''relatives'', or ''family'', or language of similar import, shall not create or presumptively create a reversionary interest in the transferor.
MA Gen L ch II § 2-709 (2021)
2021 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 2-709 - Representation; per Capita at Each Generation; per Stirpes

Section 2–709. [Representation; Per Capita at Each Generation; Per Stirpes.]  (a) In this section:  (1) ''Deceased child'' or ''deceased descendant'', a child or a descendant who predeceased the distribution date.  (2) ''Distribution date'', with respect to an interest, is the time when the interest is to take effect in possession or enjoyment. The distribution date need not occur at the beginning or end of a calendar day, but can occur at a time during the course of a day.  (3) ''Surviving ancestor'', ''surviving child'', or ''surviving descendant'', an ancestor, a child, or a descendant who did not predecease the distribution date.  (b) If an applicable statute or a governing instrument calls for property to be distributed ''per capita at each generation'', the property is divided into as many equal shares as there are (i) surviving descendants in the generation nearest to the designated ancestor which contains 1 or more surviving descendants (ii) and deceased descendants in the same generation who left surviving descendants, if any. Each surviving descendant in the nearest generation is allocated 1 share. The remaining shares, if any, are combined and then divided in the same manner among the surviving descendants of the deceased descendants as if the surviving descendants who were allocated a share and their surviving descendants had predeceased the distribution date.  (c) If a governing instrument calls for property to be distributed ''by representation'' or ''per stirpes'', the property is divided into as many equal shares as there are (i) surviving children of the designated ancestor and (ii) deceased children who left surviving descendants. Each surviving child is allocated 1 share. The share of each deceased child with surviving descendants is divided in the same manner, with subdivision repeating at each succeeding generation until the property is fully allocated among surviving descendants.  (d) For the purposes of subsections (b) and (c), an individual who is deceased and left no surviving descendant is disregarded, and an individual who leaves a surviving ancestor who is a descendant of the designated ancestor is not entitled to a share.
MA Gen L ch II § 2-708 (2021)
2021 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 2-708 - Class Gifts to ''descendants'', ''issue'', or ''heirs of the Body''; Form of Distributions if None Specified

Section 2–708. [Class Gifts to ''Descendants'', ''Issue'', or ''Heirs of the Body''; Form of Distribution If None Specified.]  If a class gift in favor of ''descendants'', ''issue'', or ''heirs of the body'' does not specify the manner in which the property is to be distributed among the class members, the property is distributed among the class members who are living when the interest is to take effect in possession or enjoyment, in such shares as they would receive, under the applicable law of intestate succession, if the designated ancestor had then died intestate owning the subject matter of the class gift.
MA Gen L ch II § 2-707 (2021)
2021 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 2-707 - Survivorship With Respect to Future Interests Under Terms of Trust; Substitute Takers

Section 2–707. [Survivorship with respect to future interests under terms of trust; substitute takers.]  (a) If an instrument is silent on the requirement of survivorship, a future interest under the terms of a trust shall be contingent on the beneficiary surviving the distribution date. In that case, if a beneficiary of a future interest under the terms of a trust fails to survive the distribution date, the following shall apply:  (1) If the future interest is not in the form of a class gift and the deceased beneficiary leaves surviving descendants, a substitute gift shall be created in the beneficiary's surviving descendants. Such descendants shall take per capita at each generation the property to which the beneficiary would have been entitled had the beneficiary survived the distribution date.  (2) If the future interest is in the form of a class gift, other than a future interest to ''issue'', ''descendants'', ''heirs of the body'', ''heirs'', ''next of kin'', ''relatives'' or ''family'', or a class described by language of similar import, a substitute gift shall be created in the deceased beneficiary or beneficiaries' surviving descendants. The property to which the beneficiaries would have been entitled had all of the beneficiaries survived the distribution date shall pass to the surviving beneficiaries and the surviving descendants of the deceased beneficiaries. Each surviving beneficiary shall take the share to which the surviving beneficiary would have been entitled had the deceased beneficiaries survived the distribution date. Each deceased beneficiary's surviving descendants who are substituted for the deceased beneficiary take per capita at each generation the share to which the deceased beneficiary would have been entitled had the deceased beneficiary survived the distribution date. For the purposes of this paragraph, ''deceased beneficiary'' shall mean a class member who failed to survive the distribution date and left 1 or more surviving descendants.  (b) If, after the application of subsection (a), there is no surviving taker, the property shall pass in the following order:  (1) if the trust was created in a nonresiduary devise in the transferor's will or in a codicil to the transferor's will, the property shall pass under the residuary clause in the transferor's will. For purposes of this section, a residuary clause shall be treated as creating a future interest under the terms of a trust;  (2) if no taker is produced by the application of clause (1), the property shall pass to the transferor's heirs under section 2–711.
MA Gen L ch II § 2-705 (2021)
2021 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 2-705 - Class Gifts Construed to Accord With Intestate Succession

Section 2–705. [Class Gifts Construed to Accord with Intestate Succession.]  (a) Adopted individuals and individuals born out of wedlock, and their respective descendants if appropriate to the class, are included in class gifts and other terms of relationship in accordance with the rules for intestate succession. Terms of relationship that do not differentiate relationships by blood from those by affinity, such as ''uncles'', ''aunts'', ''nieces'', or ''nephews'', are construed to exclude relatives by affinity. Terms of relationship that do not differentiate relationships by the half blood from those by the whole blood, such as ''brothers'', ''sisters'', ''nieces'', or ''nephews'', are construed to include both types of relationships.  (b) In addition to the requirements of subsection (a), in construing a donative disposition by a transferor who is not the adopting parent, an adopted individual is not considered the child of the adopting parent unless the adoption took place while the person adopted was a minor.
MA Gen L ch II § 2-514 (2021)
2021 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 2-514 - Contracts Concerning Succession

Section 2–514. [Contracts Concerning Succession.]  A contract to make or not to make a will or devise, or to revoke or not to revoke a will or devise, or to die intestate, if executed after the effective date of this article, may be established only by (i) provisions of a will stating material provisions of the contract, (ii) an express reference in a will to a contract and extrinsic evidence proving the terms of the contract, or (iii) a writing signed by the decedent evidencing the contract. The execution of a joint will or mutual wills shall not create a presumption of a contract not to revoke the will or wills.
MA Gen L ch II § 2-110 (2021)
2021 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 2-110 - Debts to Decedent

Section 2–110. [Debts to Decedent.]  A debt owed to a decedent is not charged against the intestate share of any individual except the debtor. If the debtor fails to survive the decedent, the debt is not taken into account in computing the intestate share of the debtor's descendants.