A provision in a will purporting to penalize an interested person for contesting the will or instituting other proceedings relating to the estate is unenforceable if probable cause exists for instituting proceedings.
Structure Alaska Statutes
Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions
Chapter 12. Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers
Article 5. Wills, Will Contracts, and Custody and Deposit of Wills.
Sec. 13.12.501. Who may make will.
Sec. 13.12.502. Execution; witnessed wills; holographic wills.
Sec. 13.12.504. Self-proved will.
Sec. 13.12.505. Who may witness.
Sec. 13.12.506. Choice of law as to execution.
Sec. 13.12.507. Revocation by writing or by act.
Sec. 13.12.508. Revocation by change of circumstances.
Sec. 13.12.509. Revival of revoked will.
Sec. 13.12.510. Incorporation by reference.
Sec. 13.12.511. Testamentary additions to trusts.
Sec. 13.12.512. Events of independent significance.
Sec. 13.12.513. Separate writing identifying devise of certain types of tangible personal property.
Sec. 13.12.514. Contracts concerning succession.
Sec. 13.12.515. Deposit of will with court in testator's lifetime.