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The Alaska Supreme Court is the highest level of state court in Alaska. It hears appeals from lower state courts and also administers the state's judicial system. The Supreme Court includes five justices. The justices, by majority vote, select one of their members to be the chief justice.

If the property is held as tenants by the entirety or as Alaska Community Property with a right of survivorship, it passes automatically to the spouse who survives the person who died. There is no need to do anything to transfer the real property to the surviving spouse.

The Superior Court of Alaska is the trial court of general jurisdiction; the Alaska Court of Appeals hears criminal appeals; and the Alaska Supreme Court is the highest appellate court, hearing primarily civil cases. Includes published opinions from the Alaska Supreme Court and Alaska Appellate Courts.

Supreme Court Justices JusticeLocationAppointedPeter J. Maassen Chief JusticeAnchorage2012Susan M. CarneyFairbanks2016Dario BorghesanAnchorage2020Jennifer S. HendersonAnchorage20211 more row

The district courts are the primary misdemeanor trial courts, the superior courts are the primary felony trial courts although they also sometimes hear appeals from the district courts, and the supreme court and the court of appeals are the primary appellate courts. Alaska is separated into 4 judicial districts.

Alaska's court system is a "unified, centrally administered, and totally state-funded" system. The Alaska Supreme Court and Alaska Court of Appeals are the state's appellate courts; the superior courts and district courts serve as trial courts. Click a link for information about that court type.