In Re Estate of Weaver

KELLY, Judge:

In this case we are called upon to determine whether the Orphans’ Court of Montgomery County properly applied the rule against perpetuities to a residuary trust which was formed by a will executed in 1934. The trust provided life estates in the interest income for the testator’s widow and his children, then to his grandchildren, with the principal to be liquidated and distributed to each of the testator’s great-grandchildren upon the death of their beneficiary parent. The last grandchild, John H.W. Macklin (Heil), died in 1987. The current controversy is whether Heil Macklin’s…