Is a no contest provision in a will legal in ireland?

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Noticed this in a will template from an online will service:
No Contest Provision: If any beneficiary under this Will contests in any court any of the provisions of this Will, then each and all such persons shall not be entitled to any devises, legacies, bequests, or benefits under this Will or any codicil hereto, and such interest or share in my estate shall be disposed of as if that contesting beneficiary had not survived me.

Is a no contest provision in a will legal in ireland?

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I am not lawyer but is this of any use?


The reluctance of the court in the Egan case to countenance a “re-writing of a deceased’s will after his death” appears to be consistent with the thinking of Stack J in another recent High Court decision (In the Estate of William John Murphy [2023] IEHC 383), in which she was asked to consider conflicting clauses in a template will that had been downloaded from the internet. In that case Stack J determined that she could come to a decision on the issue of the correct interpretation of the conflicting clauses in the template will “without doing any violence to the language of the Will [emphasis added]”.3

3. This decision is also of note in that Stack J seems to confirm that “no contest” type clauses, if included in an Irish will, would likely be void as contrary to public policy.
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