If a class gift in favor of “descendants,” “issue,” or “heirs of the body” does not specify the manner in which the property is to be distributed among the class members, the property is distributed among the class members who are living when the interest is to take effect in possession or enjoyment, in such shares as they would receive, under the applicable law of intestate succession, if the designated ancestor had then died intestate owning the subject matter of the class gift.
Structure Alaska Statutes
Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions
Chapter 12. Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers
Article 8. Rules of Construction Applicable to Wills and Other Governing Instruments.
Sec. 13.12.702. Requirement of survival by 120 hours.
Sec. 13.12.703. Choice of law as to meaning and effect of governing instrument.
Sec. 13.12.704. Power of appointment; meaning of specific reference requirement.
Sec. 13.12.705. Class gifts; terms of relationship.
Sec. 13.12.709. Distribution by representation, per capita at each generation, and per stirpes.
Sec. 13.12.710. Worthier-title doctrine abolished.
Sec. 13.12.711. Interests in heirs and other persons.
Sec. 13.12.712. Nonademption of specific transfers in trust.