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Code · New Jersey · Title 3B — Administration of Estates--Decedents and Others · Chapter 3

3B:3-47. Penalty clause for contesting will

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A provision in a will purporting to penalize any interested person for contesting the will or instituting other proceedings relating to the estate is unenforceable if probable cause exists for instituting proceedings.
L.1981, c. 405, s. 3B:3-47, eff. May 1, 1982.
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