Cengage Advantage Books: Law for Business 18th Edition by John Ashcroft ,Janet Ashcroft

Exercise 17

Julianna Robertson's will set up a trust that left her home to her husband, Lynn, for his lifetime or until he remarried or allowed "any female companion to live with him who is not a blood relative." During the probate of the will, the court held that Lynn had a life estate in the property and that the provision regarding his remarriage was an invalid restraint on marriage. James Nye, Julianna's son and the executor, appealed. Was the provision invalid?