Section 3 Judicial reform of dispositions - Massachusetts Statutes

[Text of section effective until July 1, 2011. Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 4. See 2008, 521, Sec. 44.]

Section 3. Upon the petition of an interested person, a court shall reform a disposition in the manner that most closely approximates the transferor’s manifested plan of distribution and is within the ninety years allowed by clause (2) of paragraph (a), clause (2) of paragraph (b) or clause (2) of paragraph (c) of section one if:

(1) a nonvested property interest or a power of appointment becomes invalid under said section one;

(2) a class gift is not, but might become, invalid under said section one and the time has arrived when the share of any class member is to take effect in possession or enjoyment; or

(3) a nonvested property interest that is not validated by clause (1) of paragraph (a) of said section one can vest but not within ninety years after its creation.