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. History: Laws 1975, ch. 257, § 3-905; repealed and reenacted by Laws 2016, ch. 69, § 718.
Penalty clause for contest
NMSA 1978, § 45-3-905 — under Article 3.
NMSA 1978, § 45-3-905