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AK Stat § 13.12.405 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions|Chapter 12. Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers|Article 4. Exempt Property and Allowances.|Sec. 13.12.405. Source, determination, and documentation.

(a) If the estate is otherwise sufficient, property specifically devised may not be used to satisfy rights to homestead allowance or exempt property. Subject to this restriction, the surviving spouse, guardians of minor children, or children who are adults may select property of the estate as homestead allowance and exempt property. The personal representative may make those selections if the surviving spouse, the children, or the guardians of the minor children are unable or fail to do so within a reasonable time or there is no guardian of a minor child. The personal representative may execute an instrument or deed of distribution to establish the ownership of property taken as homestead allowance or exempt property. The personal representative may determine the family allowance in a lump sum not exceeding $18,000 or periodic installments not exceeding $1,500 per month for one year, and may disburse funds of the estate in payment of the family allowance and any part of the homestead allowance payable in cash. The personal representative or an interested person aggrieved by a selection, determination, payment, proposed payment, or failure to act under this section may petition the court for appropriate relief, which may include a family allowance other than that which the personal representative determined or could have determined. (b) If the right to an elective share is exercised on behalf of a surviving spouse who is an incapacitated person, the personal representative may add unexpended portions payable under the homestead allowance, exempt property, and family allowance to the trust established under AS 13.12.212(b).
AK Stat § 13.12.501 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|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.|Sec. 13.12.501. Who may make will.

An individual 18 or more years of age who is of sound mind may make a will.
AK Stat § 13.12.502 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|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.|Sec. 13.12.502. Execution; witnessed wills; holographic wills.

(a) Except as provided in (b) of this section, AS 13.06.068, AS 13.12.506, and 13.12.513, a will must be (1) in writing; (2) signed by the testator or in the testator's name by another individual in the testator's conscious presence and by the testator's direction; and (3) signed by at least two individuals, each of whom signs within a reasonable time after the witness witnesses either the signing of the will as described in (2) of this subsection or the testator's acknowledgment of that signature or the will. (b) Except as provided in AS 13.06.068, a will that does not comply with (a) of this section is valid as a holographic will, whether or not witnessed, if the signature and material portions of the document are in the testator's handwriting.
AK Stat § 13.12.505 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|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.|Sec. 13.12.505. Who may witness.

(a) An individual generally competent to be a witness may act as a witness to a will. (b) The signing of a will by an interested witness does not invalidate the will or a provision of it.
AK Stat § 13.12.506 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|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.|Sec. 13.12.506. Choice of law as to execution.

Except as provided by AS 13.06.068, a written will is valid if executed in compliance with AS 13.12.502 or if its execution complies with the law at the time of execution of the place where the will is executed or of the law of the place where, at the time of execution or at the time of death, the testator is domiciled, has a place of abode, or is a national.
AK Stat § 13.12.507 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|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.|Sec. 13.12.507. Revocation by writing or by act.

(a) A will or a part of a will is revoked (1) by executing a subsequent will that revokes the previous will or part expressly or by inconsistency; or (2) by performing a revocatory act on the will, if the testator performed the act with the intent and for the purpose of revoking the will or part of the will or if another individual performed the act in the testator's conscious presence and by the testator's direction; in this paragraph, “revocatory act on the will” includes burning, tearing, canceling, obliterating, or destroying the will or any part of it; a “revocatory act on the will” includes a burning, tearing, or canceling whether or not the burn, tear, or cancellation touched any of the words on the will. (b) If a subsequent will does not expressly revoke a previous will, the execution of the subsequent will wholly revokes the previous will by inconsistency if the testator intended the subsequent will to replace rather than supplement the previous will. (c) The testator is presumed to have intended a subsequent will to replace rather than supplement a previous will if the subsequent will makes a complete disposition of the testator's estate. If this presumption arises and is not rebutted by clear and convincing evidence, the previous will is revoked; only the subsequent will is operative on the testator's death. (d) The testator is presumed to have intended a subsequent will to supplement rather than replace a previous will if the subsequent will does not make a complete disposition of the testator's estate. If this presumption arises and is not rebutted by clear and convincing evidence, the subsequent will revokes the previous will only to the extent the subsequent will is inconsistent with the previous will; each will is fully operative on the testator's death to the extent they are not inconsistent.
AK Stat § 13.12.508 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|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.|Sec. 13.12.508. Revocation by change of circumstances.

Except as provided in AS 13.12.803 and 13.12.804, a change of circumstances does not revoke a will or a part of it.
AK Stat § 13.12.509 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|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.|Sec. 13.12.509. Revival of revoked will.

(a) If a subsequent will that wholly revoked a previous will is thereafter revoked by a revocatory act under AS 13.12.507(a)(2), the previous will remains revoked unless it is revived. The previous will is revived if it is evident from the circumstances of the revocation of the subsequent will or from the testator's contemporary or subsequent declarations that the testator intended the previous will to take effect as executed. (b) If a subsequent will that partly revoked a previous will is thereafter revoked by a revocatory act under AS 13.12.507(a)(2), a revoked part of the previous will is revived unless it is evident from the circumstances of the revocation of the subsequent will or from the testator's contemporary or subsequent declarations that the testator did not intend the revoked part to take effect as executed. (c) If a subsequent will that revoked a previous will in whole or in part is thereafter revoked by another, later, will, the previous will remains revoked in whole or in part, unless it or its revoked part is revived. The previous will or its revoked part is revived to the extent it appears from the terms of the later will that the testator intended the previous will to take effect.
AK Stat § 13.12.510 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|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.|Sec. 13.12.510. Incorporation by reference.

A writing in existence when a will is executed may be incorporated by reference if the language of the will manifests this intent and describes the writing sufficiently to permit its identification.
AK Stat § 13.12.511 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|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.|Sec. 13.12.511. Testamentary additions to trusts.

(a) A will may validly devise property to the trustee of a trust established or to be established (1) during the testator's lifetime by the testator, by the testator and some other person, or by some other person, including a funded or unfunded life insurance trust, although the settlor has reserved any or all rights of ownership of the insurance contracts; or (2) at the testator's death by the testator's devise to the trustee, if the trust is identified in the testator's will and its terms are set out in a written instrument, other than a will, executed before, concurrently with, or after the execution of the testator's will or in another individual's will if that other individual has predeceased the testator, regardless of the existence, size, or character of the corpus of the trust. (b) A devise under (a) of this section is not invalid because the trust is amendable or revocable, or because the trust was amended after the execution of the will or the testator's death. (c) Unless the testator's will provides otherwise, property devised to a trust described in (a) - (b) of this section is not held under a testamentary trust of the testator, but it becomes a part of the trust to which it is devised, and must be administered and disposed of in accordance with the provisions of the governing instrument setting out the terms of the trust, including any amendments to the trust made before or after the testator's death. (d) Unless the testator's will provides otherwise, a revocation or termination of the trust before the testator's death causes the devise to lapse.
AK Stat § 13.12.512 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|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.|Sec. 13.12.512. Events of independent significance.

A will may dispose of property by reference to acts and events that have significance apart from their effect upon the dispositions made by the will, whether they occur before or after the execution of the will or before or after the testator's death. The execution or revocation of another individual's will is an event covered by this section.
AK Stat § 13.12.513 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|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.|Sec. 13.12.513. Separate writing identifying devise of certain types of tangible personal property.

Whether or not the provisions relating to holographic wills apply, a will may refer to a written statement or list to dispose of items of tangible personal property not otherwise specifically disposed of by the will, other than money. To be admissible under this section as evidence of the intended disposition, the writing must be signed by the testator and must describe the items and the devisees with reasonable certainty. The writing may be referred to as one to be in existence at the time of the testator's death; it may be prepared before or after the execution of the will; it may be altered by the testator after its preparation; and it may be a writing that does not have significance apart from its effect on the dispositions made by the will.
AK Stat § 13.12.514 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|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.|Sec. 13.12.514. Contracts concerning succession.

(a) A contract to make a will or devise, or not to revoke a will or devise, or to die intestate, if executed after January 1, 1997, may be established only by (1) provisions of a will stating material provisions of the contract; (2) an express reference in a will to a contract and extrinsic evidence proving the terms of the contract; or (3) a writing signed by the decedent evidencing the contract. (b) The execution of a joint will or mutual wills does not create a presumption of a contract not to revoke the will or wills.
AK Stat § 13.12.515 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|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.|Sec. 13.12.515. Deposit of will with court in testator's lifetime.

A will may be deposited by the testator or the testator's agent with a court for safekeeping, under rules of the court. During the testator's lifetime, the will must be kept confidential. During the testator's lifetime, a deposited will shall be delivered only to the testator or to a person authorized in writing signed by the testator to receive the will. A conservator may be allowed to examine a deposited will of a protected testator under procedures designed to maintain the confidential character of the document to the extent possible, and to ensure that it will be kept confidential and on deposit after the examination.
AK Stat § 13.12.516 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|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.|Sec. 13.12.516. Duty of custodian of will; liability.

After the death of a testator and on request of an interested person, a person having custody of a will of the testator shall deliver it with reasonable promptness to a person able to secure its probate and, if the person with custody does not know of a person able to secure the will's probate, to an appropriate court. A person who wilfully fails to deliver a will is liable to a person aggrieved for any damages that may be sustained by the failure. A person who wilfully refuses or fails to deliver a will after being ordered by the court in a proceeding brought for the purpose of compelling delivery is subject to penalty for contempt of court.
AK Stat § 13.12.517 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|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.|Sec. 13.12.517. Penalty clause for contest.

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.
AK Stat § 13.12.530 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions|Chapter 12. Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers|Article 6. Establishment of Will and Trust Validity before Death.|Sec. 13.12.530. Establishment of will validity before death.

A testator, a person who is nominated in a will to serve as a personal representative, or, with the testator's consent, an interested party may petition the court to determine before the testator's death that the will is a valid will subject only to subsequent revocation or modification.
AK Stat § 13.12.535 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions|Chapter 12. Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers|Article 6. Establishment of Will and Trust Validity before Death.|Sec. 13.12.535. Establishment of trust validity before death.

If at least one of the trustees of a trust is a qualified person, the settlor or a trustee of the trust may petition the court to determine before the settlor's death that the trust is valid and enforceable under its terms, subject only to a subsequent revocation or modification of the trust.
AK Stat § 13.12.540 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions|Chapter 12. Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers|Article 6. Establishment of Will and Trust Validity before Death.|Sec. 13.12.540. Venue.

(a) The venue for a petition under AS 13.12.530 is (1) the judicial district of this state where the testator is domiciled; or (2) if the person who executed the will is not domiciled in this state, any judicial district of this state. (b) The venue for a petition under AS 13.12.535 is the judicial district where the trust is registered. The venue for proceedings involving a trust that is not registered in this state is (1) any place in this state where the trust could have been properly registered; or (2) the location established by the rules of court.
AK Stat § 13.12.545 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions|Chapter 12. Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers|Article 6. Establishment of Will and Trust Validity before Death.|Sec. 13.12.545. Contents of petition for will validity.

A petition under AS 13.12.530 must contain (1) a statement that a copy of the will has been filed with the court; (2) a statement that the will is in writing; (3) a statement that the will was signed by the testator, or was signed in the testator's name by another person in the testator's conscious presence and at the testator's direction; (4) in the case of a witnessed will, a statement that the will was signed by at least two individuals, each of whom signed within a reasonable time after witnessing the signing of the will or the testator's acknowledgment of the signature on the will; (5) in the case of a holographic will, a statement that the signature and material portions of the will are in the testator's handwriting; (6) a statement that the will was executed with testamentary intent; (7) a statement that the testator had testamentary capacity; (8) a statement that the testator was free from undue influence and duress and executed the will in the exercise of the testator's free will; (9) a statement that the execution of the will was not the result of fraud or mistake; (10) the names and addresses of the testator, the testator's spouse, the testator's children, the testator's heirs, the personal representatives nominated in the will, and the devisees under the will; (11) if minors, the ages of the testator's children, the testator's heirs, and the devisees under the will, as far as known or ascertainable with reasonable diligence by the petitioner; (12) a statement that the will has not been revoked or modified; and (13) a statement that the testator is familiar with the contents of the will.
AK Stat § 13.12.550 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions|Chapter 12. Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers|Article 6. Establishment of Will and Trust Validity before Death.|Sec. 13.12.550. Contents of petition for trust validity.

(a) A petition for trust validity under AS 13.12.535 must contain (1) a statement that a copy of the trust has been filed with the court; (2) a statement that the trust is in writing and was signed by the settlor; (3) a statement that the trust was executed with the intent that it be enforceable in accordance with its terms; (4) a statement that the settlor had the legal capacity to enter into and establish the trust; (5) a statement that the settlor was free from undue influence and duress and executed the trust in the exercise of free will; (6) a statement that execution of the trust was not the result of fraud or mistake; (7) the names and addresses of the settlor, the settlor's spouse, the settlor's children, the settlor's heirs, and the parties in interest; (8) the ages of the settlor's children, the settlor's heirs, and the parties in interest who are minors so far as known or ascertainable with reasonable diligence by the petitioner; (9) a statement that the trust has not been revoked or modified; and (10) a statement that the settlor is familiar with the contents of the trust. (b) In this section, “party in interest” has the meaning given in AS 13.36.390.
AK Stat § 13.12.555 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions|Chapter 12. Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers|Article 6. Establishment of Will and Trust Validity before Death.|Sec. 13.12.555. Declaration by court.

The court may declare a will or trust to be valid and make other findings of fact and conclusions of law that are appropriate under the circumstances. After the testator's death, unless the will is modified or revoked after the declaration, the will has full legal effect as the instrument of the disposition of the testator's estate and shall be admitted to probate upon request.
AK Stat § 13.12.560 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions|Chapter 12. Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers|Article 6. Establishment of Will and Trust Validity before Death.|Sec. 13.12.560. Binding effect of declaration.

A person, whether the person is known, unknown, born, or not born at the time of a proceeding under AS 13.12.530 - 13.12.590, including a person who is represented by another person under AS 13.06.120, is bound by the declaration under AS 13.12.555 even if, by the time of the testator's death, the representing person has died or would no longer be able to represent the person represented in the proceeding under AS 13.12.530 - 13.12.590.
AK Stat § 13.12.565 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions|Chapter 12. Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers|Article 6. Establishment of Will and Trust Validity before Death.|Sec. 13.12.565. Hearing and notice.

(a) After the petition under AS 13.12.530 or 13.12.535 is filed, the court shall fix a time and place for a hearing. The petitioner shall notify the spouse, the children, and the heirs of the testator or settlor in the manner established by AS 13.06.110. (b) In addition to the notice required by (a) of this section, in proceedings involving a petition under AS 13.12.530, the petitioner shall notify the testator, the personal representatives nominated in the will, and the devisees under the will in the manner established by AS 13.06.110. (c) In addition to the notice required by (a) of this section, in proceedings involving a petition under AS 13.12.535, the petitioner shall notify the settlor and the parties in interest in the manner established by AS 13.06.110. Notice may be given to other persons. In this subsection, “party in interest” has the meaning given in AS 13.36.390.