Future Interests

Question 1

Destructibility of contingent remainders

Answer 1

ABOLISHED
- If a CR is still contingent when the estate ends, it is not destroyed but continues as an EI until the contingency occurs

Question 2

Rule in Shelley’s Case

Answer 2

ABOLISHED
- In a conveyance from O to A for life with the remainder to A’s heirs:
• A’s possible heirs have a CR
• O has a reversion, because A could die without heirs

Question 3

Doctrine of Worthier Title

Answer 3

ABOLISHED

Question 4

Transferability of remainders and executory interests

Answer 4

All future interests can be transferred inter vivos or by will, even rights of entry.