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AK Stat § 13.12.570 (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. 13.12.570. Burden of proof.

A petitioner under AS 13.12.530 or 13.12.535 has the burden of establishing prima facie proof of the execution of the will or trust. A person who opposes the petition has the burden of establishing the lack of testamentary intent, lack of capacity, undue influence, fraud, duress, mistake, or revocation. A party to the proceeding has the ultimate burden of persuasion as to the matters for which the party has the initial burden of proof.
AK Stat § 13.12.575 (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. 13.12.575. Change to will after declaration.

After a declaration of the validity of a will under AS 13.12.555, a testator may modify a will by a later will or codicil executed according to the laws of this state or another state, and the will may be revoked or modified under AS 13.12.507, 13.12.508, or another applicable law.
AK Stat § 13.12.580 (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. 13.12.580. Change to trust after declaration.

After a declaration of validity under AS 13.12.555, a trust may be modified, terminated, revoked, or reformed under AS 13.36.340 - 13.36.365, or another applicable law.
AK Stat § 13.12.585 (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. 13.12.585. Confidentiality.

(a) A notice of the filing of a petition under AS 13.12.530 - 13.12.580, a summary of all formal proceedings under AS 13.12.530 - 13.12.580, and a dispositional order or a modification or termination of a dispositional order relating to a proceeding under AS 13.12.530 - 13.12.580 shall be available for public inspection. Except as provided in (b) and (c) of this section, all other information contained in the court records relating to a proceeding under AS 13.12.530 - 13.12.580 is confidential. (b) The records that are confidential under (a) of this section may be made available to (1) the petitioner and the petitioner's attorney; (2) interested persons who have appeared in the proceedings, interested persons who have otherwise submitted to the jurisdiction of the court, and the attorneys, guardians, and conservators of the interested persons; (3) the judge hearing or reviewing the matter; and (4) a member of the clerical or administrative staff of the court if access is essential for authorized internal administrative purposes. (c) For good cause shown, the court may order the records that are confidential under (a) of this section to be made available to a person who is not listed in (b) of this section.
AK Stat § 13.12.590 (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. 13.12.590. Definitions.

In AS 13.12.530 - 13.12.590, (1) “qualified person” has the meaning given in AS 13.36.390; (2) “testator” means a person who executes a will as a testator; (3) “trust” means a revocable or irrevocable trust.
AK Stat § 13.12.601 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions|Chapter 12. Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers|Article 7. Rules of Construction Applicable Only to Wills.|Sec. 13.12.601. Scope.

Except as provided in AS 13.06.068, in the absence of a finding of a contrary intention, the rules of construction in AS 13.12.601 - 13.12.609 control the construction of a will.
AK Stat § 13.12.602 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions|Chapter 12. Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers|Article 7. Rules of Construction Applicable Only to Wills.|Sec. 13.12.602. Will may pass all property and after-acquired property.

A will may provide for the passage of all property the testator owns at death and all property acquired by the estate after the testator's death.
AK Stat § 13.12.604 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions|Chapter 12. Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers|Article 7. Rules of Construction Applicable Only to Wills.|Sec. 13.12.604. Failure of testamentary provision.

(a) Except as provided in AS 13.12.603, a devise, other than a residuary devise, that fails for any reason becomes a part of the residue. (b) Except as provided in AS 13.12.603, if the residue is devised to two or more persons, the share of a residuary devisee that fails for any reason passes to the other residuary devisee, or to other residuary devisees in proportion to the interest of each in the remaining part of the residue.
AK Stat § 13.12.605 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions|Chapter 12. Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers|Article 7. Rules of Construction Applicable Only to Wills.|Sec. 13.12.605. Increase in securities; accessions.

(a) If a testator executes a will that devises securities and the testator then owned securities that meet the description in the will, the devise includes additional securities that are owned by the testator at death to the extent the additional securities were acquired by the testator after the will was executed as a result of the testator's ownership of the described securities and that are securities of (1) the same organization acquired by reason of action initiated by the organization or a successor, related, or acquiring organization, excluding securities acquired by exercise of purchase options; (2) another organization acquired as a result of a merger, consolidation, reorganization, or other distribution by the organization or a successor, related, or acquiring organization; or (3) the same organization acquired as a result of a plan of reinvestment. (b) Distributions in cash before death with respect to a described security are not part of the devise.
AK Stat § 13.12.606 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions|Chapter 12. Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers|Article 7. Rules of Construction Applicable Only to Wills.|Sec. 13.12.606. Nonademption of specific devises.

(a) A specific devisee has a right to the specifically devised property in the testator's estate at death and (1) any amount of a condemnation award for the taking of the property unpaid at death; (2) any proceeds unpaid at death on fire or casualty insurance on or other recovery for injury to the property; and (3) property owned by the testator at death and acquired as a result of foreclosure, or obtained in lieu of foreclosure, of the security interest for the specifically devised obligation. (b) If specifically devised property is sold or mortgaged by a conservator or by an agent acting within the authority of a durable power of attorney for an incapacitated principal, or if a condemnation award, insurance proceeds, or recovery for injury to the property are paid to a conservator or to an agent acting within the authority of a durable power of attorney for an incapacitated principal, the specific devisee has the right to a general pecuniary devise equal to the net sale price, the amount of the unpaid loan, the condemnation award, the insurance proceeds, or the recovery. (c) The right of a specific devisee under (b) of this section is reduced by any right the devisee has under (a) of this section. (d) For the purposes of the references in (b) of this section to a conservator, (b) of this section does not apply if after the sale, mortgage, condemnation, casualty, or recovery, it was adjudicated that the testator's incapacity ceased and the testator survived the adjudication by one year. (e) For the purposes of the references in (b) of this section to an agent acting within the authority of a durable power of attorney for an incapacitated principal, (1) “incapacitated principal” means a principal who is an incapacitated person; (2) adjudication of incapacity before death is not necessary; and (3) the acts of an agent within the authority of a durable power of attorney are presumed to be for an incapacitated principal.
AK Stat § 13.12.607 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions|Chapter 12. Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers|Article 7. Rules of Construction Applicable Only to Wills.|Sec. 13.12.607. Nonexoneration.

A specific devise passes subject to any mortgage interest existing at the date of death, without right of exoneration, regardless of a general directive in the will to pay debts.
AK Stat § 13.12.608 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions|Chapter 12. Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers|Article 7. Rules of Construction Applicable Only to Wills.|Sec. 13.12.608. Exercise of power of appointment.

In the absence of a requirement that a power of appointment be exercised by a reference, or by an express or specific reference, to the power, a general residuary clause in a will, or a will making general disposition of all of the testator's property, expresses an intention to exercise a power of appointment held by the testator only if (1) the power is a general power and the creating instrument does not contain a gift if the power is not exercised; or (2) the testator's will manifests an intention to include the property subject to the power.
AK Stat § 13.12.609 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions|Chapter 12. Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers|Article 7. Rules of Construction Applicable Only to Wills.|Sec. 13.12.609. Ademption by satisfaction.

(a) Property a testator gave in the testator's lifetime to a person is treated as a satisfaction of a devise in whole or in part, only if (1) the will provides for deduction of the gift; (2) the testator declared in a contemporaneous writing that the gift is in satisfaction of the devise or that its value is to be deducted from the value of the devise; or (3) the devisee acknowledged in writing that the gift is in satisfaction of the devise or that its value is to be deducted from the value of the devise. (b) For purposes of partial satisfaction, property given during lifetime is valued as of the time the devisee came into possession or enjoyment of the property or at the testator's death, whichever occurs first. (c) If the devisee fails to survive the testator, the gift is treated as a full or partial satisfaction of the devise, as appropriate, in applying AS 13.12.603 and 13.12.604, unless the testator's contemporaneous writing provides otherwise.
AK Stat § 13.12.701 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions|Chapter 12. Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers|Article 8. Rules of Construction Applicable to Wills and Other Governing Instruments.|Sec. 13.12.701. Scope.

In the absence of a finding of a contrary intention, the rules of construction in AS 13.12.701 - 13.12.711 control the construction of a governing instrument. The rules of construction in AS 13.12.701 - 13.12.711 apply to a governing instrument of any type, except as the application of a particular section is limited by its terms to a specific type of provision or governing instrument.
AK Stat § 13.12.703 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions|Chapter 12. Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers|Article 8. Rules of Construction Applicable to Wills and Other Governing Instruments.|Sec. 13.12.703. Choice of law as to meaning and effect of governing instrument.

(a) The meaning and legal effect of a governing instrument is determined by the local law of the state selected in the governing instrument, unless the application of that law is contrary to the provisions relating to the elective share described in AS 13.12.201 - 13.12.214, the provisions relating to exempt property and allowances described in AS 13.12.401 - 13.12.405, or other public policy of this state otherwise applicable to the disposition. (b) The provisions of (a) of this section are subject to AS 13.06.068.
AK Stat § 13.12.704 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions|Chapter 12. Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers|Article 8. Rules of Construction Applicable to Wills and Other Governing Instruments.|Sec. 13.12.704. Power of appointment; meaning of specific reference requirement.

If a governing instrument creating a power of appointment expressly requires that the power be exercised by a reference, an express reference, or a specific reference, to the power or its source, it is presumed that the donor's intention, in requiring that the donee exercise the power by making reference to the particular power or to the creating instrument, was to prevent an inadvertent exercise of the power.
AK Stat § 13.12.705 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions|Chapter 12. Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers|Article 8. Rules of Construction Applicable to Wills and Other Governing Instruments.|Sec. 13.12.705. Class gifts; terms of relationship.

(a) Adopted individuals and individuals born out of wedlock, and their respective descendants if appropriate to the class, are included in class gifts and other terms of relationship in accordance with the rules for intestate succession. Terms of relationship that do not differentiate relationships by blood from those by affinity, such as “uncles,” “aunts,” “nieces,” or “nephews,” are construed to exclude relatives by affinity. Terms of relationship that do not differentiate relationships by the half blood from those by the whole blood, such as “brothers,” “sisters,” “nieces,” or “nephews,” are construed to include both types of relationships. (b) In addition to the requirements of (a) of this section, in construing a dispositive provision of a transferor who is not the natural parent, an individual born to the natural parent is not considered the child of that natural parent unless the individual lived while a minor as a regular member of the household of that natural parent or of that natural parent's parent, brother, sister, spouse, or surviving spouse. (c) In addition to the requirements of (a) of this section, in construing a dispositive provision of a transferor who is not the adopting parent, an adopted individual is not considered the child of the adopting parent unless the adopted individual lived while a minor, either before or after the adoption, as a regular member of the household of the adopting parent.
AK Stat § 13.12.708 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions|Chapter 12. Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers|Article 8. Rules of Construction Applicable to Wills and Other Governing Instruments.|Sec. 13.12.708. Class gifts to “descendants,” “issue,” or “heirs of the body”; form of distribution if none specified.

If a class gift in favor of “descendants,” “issue,” or “heirs of the body” does not specify the manner in which the property is to be distributed among the class members, the property is distributed among the class members who are living when the interest is to take effect in possession or enjoyment, in such shares as they would receive, under the applicable law of intestate succession, if the designated ancestor had then died intestate owning the subject matter of the class gift.
AK Stat § 13.12.709 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions|Chapter 12. Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers|Article 8. Rules of Construction Applicable to Wills and Other Governing Instruments.|Sec. 13.12.709. Distribution by representation, per capita at each generation, and per stirpes.

(a) If an applicable statute or a governing instrument calls for property to be distributed “by representation” or “per capita at each generation,” the property is divided into as many equal shares as there are (1) surviving descendants in the generation nearest to the designated ancestor that contains one or more surviving descendants; and (2) deceased descendants in the same generation who left surviving descendants, if any. (b) In (a) of this section, each surviving descendant in the nearest generation is allocated one share, and the remaining shares, if any, are combined and then divided in the same manner among the surviving descendants of the deceased descendants as if the surviving descendants who were allocated a share and their surviving descendants had predeceased the distribution date. (c) If a governing instrument calls for property to be distributed “per stirpes,” the property is divided into as many equal shares as there are (1) surviving children of the designated ancestor; and (2) deceased children who left surviving descendants. (d) In (c) of this section, each surviving child, if any, is allocated one share, and the share of each deceased child with surviving descendants is divided in the same manner, with subdivision repeating at each succeeding generation until the property is fully allocated among surviving descendants. (e) For the purposes of (a) - (d) of this section, an individual who is deceased and does not leave surviving descendants is disregarded, and an individual who leaves a surviving ancestor who is a descendant of the designated ancestor is not entitled to a share. (f) In this section, (1) “deceased child” or “deceased descendant” means a child or a descendant who either predeceased the distribution date or is considered to have predeceased the distribution date under AS 13.12.702; (2) “distribution date,” with respect to an interest, means the time when the interest is to take effect in possession or enjoyment; the distribution date does not need to occur at the beginning or end of a calendar day, but can occur at a time during the course of a day; (3) “surviving ancestor,” “surviving child,” or “surviving descendant” means an ancestor, a child, or a descendant who neither predeceased the distribution date nor is considered to have predeceased the distribution date under AS 13.12.702.
AK Stat § 13.12.710 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions|Chapter 12. Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers|Article 8. Rules of Construction Applicable to Wills and Other Governing Instruments.|Sec. 13.12.710. Worthier-title doctrine abolished.

The doctrine of worthier title is abolished as a rule of law and as a rule of construction. Language in a governing instrument describing the beneficiaries of a disposition as the transferor's “heirs,” “heirs at law,” “next of kin,” “distributees,” “relatives,” or “family,” or language of similar import, does not create or presumptively create a reversionary interest in the transferor.
AK Stat § 13.12.711 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions|Chapter 12. Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers|Article 8. Rules of Construction Applicable to Wills and Other Governing Instruments.|Sec. 13.12.711. Interests in heirs and other persons.

If an applicable statute or a governing instrument calls for a present or future distribution to or creates a present or future interest in a designated individual's “heirs,” “heirs at law,” “next of kin,” “relatives,” or “family,” or language of similar import, the property passes to those persons, including the state, and in such shares as would succeed to the designated individual's intestate estate under the intestate succession law of the designated individual's domicile if the designated individual died when the disposition is to take effect in possession or enjoyment. If the designated individual's surviving spouse is living but is remarried at the time the disposition is to take effect in possession or enjoyment, the surviving spouse is not an heir of the designated individual.
AK Stat § 13.12.712 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions|Chapter 12. Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers|Article 8. Rules of Construction Applicable to Wills and Other Governing Instruments.|Sec. 13.12.712. Nonademption of specific transfers in trust.

(a) Unless the trust provides otherwise, a beneficiary of a trust has a right to property that, by the terms of the trust, is to be specifically distributed to the beneficiary and to (1) any amount of a condemnation award that is for the taking of the property and that is unpaid when the distribution becomes effective; (2) any proceeds from fire or casualty insurance on, or other recovery for injury to, the property that are unpaid when the distribution becomes effective; and (3) property owned by the settlor when the distribution becomes effective if the property is acquired as a result of foreclosure, or obtained in lieu of foreclosure, of the security interest for the specifically distributed obligation. (b) Unless the covered trust provides otherwise, if property that is to be specifically distributed to a beneficiary of a covered trust is instead sold or mortgaged by a trustee of the covered trust, or if a condemnation award, insurance proceeds, or a recovery for injury to the property is paid to a trustee of the covered trust, the beneficiary has the right to a general pecuniary property distribution that is equal to the net sale price, the amount of the unpaid loan, the condemnation award, the insurance proceeds, or the recovery. In this subsection, “covered trust,” means a trust that was originally amendable or revocable by the settlor but that cannot be amended or revoked by the settlor because of the settlor's incapacity. (c) The right of a beneficiary under (b) of this section is reduced by any right the beneficiary has under (a) of this section. (d) [Repealed, § 3 ch 36 SLA 2001.]  (e) [Repealed, § 3 ch 36 SLA 2001.]