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The Laws of New York
Consolidated Laws of New York
CHAPTER 17-B
Estates, Powers & Trusts
ARTICLE 9
Perpetuities and Accumulations
PART 1
Perpetuities
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SECTION 9-1.2
Reduction of age contingency
Estates, Powers & Trusts (EPT) CHAPTER 17-B, ARTICLE 9, PART 1
§ 9-1.2 Reduction of age contingency

Where an estate would, except for this section, be invalid because
made to depend, for its vesting or its duration, upon any person
attaining or failing to attain an age in excess of twenty-one years, the
age contingency shall be reduced to twenty-one years as to any or all
persons subject to such contingency.