Section 16 Contingent interests; protection - Massachusetts Statutes

[Text of section effective until July 1, 2011. Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 29. See 2008, 521, Sec. 44.]

Section 16. If the court finds that any future contingent interests which would arise under said will if admitted to probate would be affected by the arbitration or compromise, it shall appoint some person to represent such interests in such controversy, and the court shall have like power as to any bequests made in the will for charitable purposes, if no trustees have been appointed in such will; in both cases with such conditions as to costs as the court orders.