Court Opinion

ID: 9855746
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 06:30:16.719931+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:36:57.537394
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Hill, Presiding Justice,
concurring specially.
The law does not favor the probate of invalid wills. Hence, in terrorem clauses are not favored.* In terrorem clauses therefore must be strictly construed.
*276This in terrorem clause only applies to contests or opposition to probate or validity of the will and to legal proceedings to set aside the will. Strictly construed, this in terrorem clause therefore does not apply to legal proceedings to contest the validity of a provision of the will (as opposed to the validity of the will as a whole).

 On the other hand, the law does not favor unnecessary litigation. Unfortunately, Code Ann. § 113-820 is not conditioned upon whether the litigation was unnecessary, *276or was necessary to protect the integrity of the process by which estates are administered. It is conditioned upon whether there was “a limitation over to some other person.”