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An Alaska small estate affidavit allows the successors of a person who has passed away to collect property of the person who died without having to go through the added time of the probate process.

If you create a revocable trust, you will need to choose a Trustee and decide how the property will be managed after you die. If you want to avoid probate, you will also need to transfer ownership of all of your property to the revocable trust or name the revocable trust as a beneficiary of your property.

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.

File a sworn statement to close the probate or petition the court for a final hearing. To close a small estate, you may file a ?Sworn Statement of Personal Representative Closing Small Estate." When probate is complete but at least 6 months after date of first publication of Notice to Creditors.

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).

There is no limit to when you can file a will with probate court after the deceased passes in Alaska. However, when you file may determine which probate process you can take. You need to file within the three years after the deceased's passing to qualify for informal probate.