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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.

Searching for Wills Use CourtView to search by name for wills deposited with any court in Alaska. Case numbers for wills end with a suffix of WI (example: 3AN-06-00001WI).

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.

If you have no spouse and any of your children are alive, they will be the only heirs to your estate. However, if you die with a surviving spouse and descendants who are not your surviving spouse's descendants, your spouse will inherit the first $100,000 of intestate property and then half of what remains.

A complete list of Alaska Court System contact information is available on our website. Most court files are available for public inspection. Files in some proceedings, such as juvenile matters, are confidential and only parties to the case are allowed access to the file.

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).