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AS 13.12.517: Penalty clause for contest.
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions.
- Chapter 12. Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers.
- Article 5. Wills, Will Contracts, and Custody and Deposit of Wills.
A provision in a will purporting to penalize an interested person for contesting the will or instituting other proceedings relating to the estate is unenforceable if probable cause exists for instituting proceedings.
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