Section 700.04. Classification of future interests.

  Future interests are classified as:

(1)  A reversionary interest left in the transferor or the transferor's successors in interest, either as a reversion, a possibility of reverter upon the simultaneous creation of a fee simple determinable, or a power of reacquisition; or

(2)  An interest created in a person other than the transferor or the transferor's successors in interest, called a remainder, to take effect at the termination of a preceding interest created at the same time or without the intervention of such a preceding interest.

1991 a. 316 . When a conditional testamentary disposition failed, the court found a gift by implication rather than a reversionary interest that would have contravened the testator's intent. In re Trust of Pauly, 71 Wis. 2d 306 , 237 N.W.2d 719 (1976).