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Spouses in Alaska Inheritance Law If you have no living parents or descendants, your spouse will inherit all of your intestate property. If you have living parents but no descendants, your spouse will inherit the first $200,000 of your intestate property. They will also inherit 3/4 of any remaining intestate property.

If the estate only includes personal property (e.g. bank accounts, household items, insurance payable to the estate, motor vehicles, boats) valued at less than $50,000 (plus $100,000 in motor vehicles), and an heir or devisee is willing to wait 30 days after death, he is authorized to collect the property by presenting ...

One of the easiest ways to avoid probate is to make sure that all of your financial accounts have designated beneficiaries on accounts. Assets that have these designated beneficiaries (sometimes called TOD's or POD's) automatically avoid probate. Alaska now has a law allowing Transfer Death Deeds.

In fact, many estates can be settled without any court involvement at all. Estates valued at less than $50,000, plus $100,000 worth of motor vehicles, can often avoid the probate process in court, provided the estate contains no real property (land or a home).

Only property owned by the person who died which does not pass automatically to a survivor must go through probate. The title to some property passes to a survivor without filing anything with the court. This type of property is called nonprobate property.

Exempt property is personal property of the person who died, worth up to $10,000, that the Personal Representative must give to certain family members. Exempt property is payable to the surviving spouse of the person who died, if any.