<section number="75B-2-112"><effdate>5/7/2025</effdate><histories><history>Renumbered and Amended by Chapter <modchap sess="2025GS">310</modchap>, 2025 General Session</history><modyear>2025</modyear></histories><catchline>Penalty provisions.</catchline><tab/>A provision in a trust instrument purporting to penalize a beneficiary by charging the beneficiary's interest in the trust, or to penalize the beneficiary in another manner, for instituting a proceeding to challenge the acts of the trustee or other fiduciary of a trust, or for instituting other proceedings relating to the trust is unenforceable if probable cause exists for instituting the proceedings.</section>