Arrowsmith v. Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Co.

RODOWSKY, Judge.

This estates and trusts case presents three issues:

1. Where the exercise of a testamentary power of appointment is questioned under the rule against perpetuities, should the period of the rule be measured from the creation of the power, as provided by current Maryland law, or from the exercise of the power?

2. Can the doctrine of dependent relative revocation avoid the rule against perpetuities by including a perpetuities saving clause from an earlier exercise of a testamentary power of appointment into a later exercise of the power?

3. Should Maryland law be changed to…