2020 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 700. Interests in property.
700.04 Classification of future interests.
700.04 Classification of future interests. Future interests are classified as:
(1) A reversionary interest left in the transferor or the transferor's successors in interest, either as a reversion, a possibility of reverter upon the simultaneous creation of a fee simple determinable, or a power of reacquisition; or
(2) An interest created in a person other than the transferor or the transferor's successors in interest, called a remainder, to take effect at the termination of a preceding interest created at the same time or without the intervention of such a preceding interest.
History: 1991 a. 316.
When a conditional testamentary disposition failed, the court found a gift by implication rather than a reversionary interest that would have contravened the testator's intent. In re Trust of Pauly, 71 Wis. 2d 306, 237 N.W.2d 719 (1976).
