If two or more instruments are offered for probate before a final order is entered in a formal testacy proceeding, more than one instrument may be probated if neither expressly revokes the other or contains provisions that work a total revocation by implication. If more than one instrument is probated, the order shall indicate what provisions control in respect to the nomination of an executor, if any. The order may, but need not, indicate how any provisions of a particular instrument are affected by the other instrument. After a final order in a testacy proceeding has been entered, no petition for probate of any other instrument of the decedent may be entertained, except incident to a petition to vacate or modify a previous probate order and subject to the time limits of AS 13.16.195.
Structure Alaska Statutes
Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions
Chapter 16. Probate of Wills and Administration
Article 4. Formal Testacy and Appointment Proceedings.
Sec. 13.16.140. Formal testacy proceedings; nature; when commenced.
Sec. 13.16.145. Formal testacy or appointment proceedings; petition; contents.
Sec. 13.16.150. Formal testacy proceeding; notice of hearing on petition.
Sec. 13.16.155. Formal testacy proceedings; written objections to probate.
Sec. 13.16.160. Formal testacy proceedings; uncontested cases; hearings and proof.
Sec. 13.16.165. Formal testacy proceedings; contested cases; testimony of attesting witnesses.
Sec. 13.16.170. Formal testacy proceedings; burdens in contested cases.
Sec. 13.16.180. Formal testacy proceedings; order; foreign will.
Sec. 13.16.185. Formal testacy proceedings; probate of more than one instrument.
Sec. 13.16.190. Formal testacy proceedings; partial intestacy.
Sec. 13.16.195. Formal testacy proceedings; effect of order; vacation.
Sec. 13.16.200. Formal testacy proceedings; vacation of order for other cause.
Sec. 13.16.205. Formal proceedings concerning appointment of personal representative.