SHAVER v. CLANTON

Docket No. G013816.

26 Cal.App.4th 568 (1994)

31 Cal. Rptr.2d 595

DONNA SHAVER, Individually and as Trustee, etc., Plaintiff and Appellant, v. ROBERT A. CLANTON et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division Three.

June 30, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Carlos F. Negrete for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Coontz & Matthews and M. Stephen Coontz for Defendants and Appellants.


OPINION

SONENSHINE, J.

This case of first impression requires us to analyze every first-year law student's worst nightmare: the rule against perpetuities. (1) "No interest is good unless it must vest, if at all, not later than 21 years after some life in being at the creation of the interest." (Gray, The Rule Against Perpetuities (4th ed. 1942) § 201, p. 191.) As one sage stated in 1916 regarding the rule's applicability...

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