In the absence of administration, the heirs and devisees are entitled to the estate in accordance with the terms of a probated will or the laws of intestate succession. Devisees may establish title by the probated will to devised property. Persons entitled to property by homestead allowance, exemption, or intestacy may establish title to it by proof of the decedent's ownership, death, and their relationship to the decedent. Successors take subject to all charges incident to administration, including the claims of creditors and allowances of surviving spouse and dependent children, and subject to the rights of others resulting from abatement, retainer, advancement, and ademption.
Structure Alaska Statutes
Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions
Chapter 16. Probate of Wills and Administration
Article 9. Special Provisions Relating to Distribution.
Sec. 13.16.535. Successors' rights if no administration.
Sec. 13.16.540. Distribution; order in which assets appropriated; abatement.
Sec. 13.16.545. Right of retainer.
Sec. 13.16.555. Penalty clause for contest.
Sec. 13.16.560. Distribution in kind; valuation; method.
Sec. 13.16.565. Distribution in kind; evidence.
Sec. 13.16.570. Distribution; right or title of distributee.
Sec. 13.16.575. Improper distribution; liability of distributee.
Sec. 13.16.580. Purchasers from distributees protected.
Sec. 13.16.585. Partition for purpose of distribution.
Sec. 13.16.590. Private agreements among successors to decedent binding on personal representative.
Sec. 13.16.595. Distributions to trustee.
Sec. 13.16.600. Disposition of unclaimed assets.