The lives of individuals selected to govern the time of vesting pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 21205) of Chapter 1 may not be so numerous or so situated that evidence of their deaths is likely to be unreasonably difficult to obtain.
PerpetuitiesRelated Provisions
Section § 21230
This law requires that when choosing individuals to determine the timing of when a trust or similar interest becomes effective (known as vesting), those individuals must not be so numerous or hard to track that confirming their deaths would be too difficult.
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Section § 21231
This law section explains how to determine if a nonvested property interest is valid. It states that if someone is defined as the spouse of a person who is alive when the perpetuities period starts, that spouse is treated as if they were alive when the interest is created, even if they actually weren't alive at that time.
In determining the validity of a nonvested property interest pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 21205) of Chapter 1, an individual described as the spouse of an individual alive at the commencement of the perpetuities period shall be deemed to be an individual alive when the interest is created, whether or not the individual so described was then alive.
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