Section 34-1-137 - Fees Tail Prohibited; Future Interests of Fees Tail; Worthier Title Doctrine Abolished

34-1-137. Fees tail prohibited; future interests of fees tail; worthier title doctrine abolished. (a) The creation of fees tail is not permitted. The use in an otherwise effective conveyance of property of language appropriate to create a fee tail, creates a fee simple in the person who would have taken a fee tail. Any future interest limited upon such an interest is a limitation upon the fee simple and its validity is determined accordingly. (b) The doctrine of worthier title is abolished as a rule of law and as a rule of construction. Language in a will, trust agreement, beneficiary designation or other governing instrument describing the beneficiaries of a disposition as '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.