§ 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.