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Into Perpetuity: The Grand Court Charts New Territory Under the Cayman Islands' Reformed Trust Regime The Reforms to the Perpetuities Act in Brief The Application to disapply Principles Comment
The Perpetuities Act (2025 Revision) marks an important moment for Cayman Islands trust law. For settlors of new trusts, the legislation offers the power to opt out of any perpetuity limitation at inception. For those who administer existing structures, it creates a streamlined, court-supervised route to convert a fixed-term trust into one of unlimited duration.
In March 2026, in what is understood to be the first successful application of its kind under the new statutory jurisdiction conferred by section 20 of the Perpetuities Act (2025 Revision), Harneys successfully obtained an order from…
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