TRUSTS & ESTATES LAW Supreme Court of Alaska (2024) Rasa Kerelis In In the Matter of the Estate of Paul Arthur Bentley, No. S-17944, 2024 WL 4246121 (Alaska 2024), the supreme court held that a testator may choose Alaska law to govern the effect and interpretation of the will with regard to property located in Continue Reading »
TRUSTS & ESTATES LAW Supreme Court of Alaska (2024) Rasa Kerelis In Guerra v. Wallace, the supreme court affirmed summary judgment and held that an attorney did not owe a duty of care to a nonclient (in this case, the beneficiary of an estate), nor did the attorney owe a duty of care to prevent Continue Reading »
TRUSTS & ESTATES LAW Supreme Court of Alaska (2023) Justin T. Reed In Matter of Estate of Evensen, 531 P.3d 969 (Alaska 2023), the supreme court held that if the original of a will document cannot be found, there is a rebuttable presumption that the testator revoked it. (Id. at 978). In 1994, Evensen drafted Continue Reading »
TRUSTS & ESTATES LAWUnited States District Court, District of Alaska (2022)Sarah BrooksIn Snead v. Wright, 2022 WL 4095907 (D. Alaska 2022), the district court held that an expertwitness’s testimony becomes excludable when it draws legal conclusions that should only bedrawn by the jury, or when the expert is shown to be unqualified to testify on Continue Reading »
TRUSTS & ESTATES LAW Hannah Rogers In Matter of Estate of Rodman, 498 P.3d 1054 (Alaska 2021), the supreme court held that that the statute of frauds barred enforcement of alleged contracts for the state of land and that the alternative remedy of restitution was not warranted in all but one property. (Id. at Continue Reading »
In Bjorn-Roli v. Mulligan,[1] the supreme court held that a trustee using trust funds to maintain trust property her son was staying on free of rent did not require removal even though it was a breach of fiduciary duty. After the death of her parents, Bjorn-Roli was appointed as sole trustee of two trusts with Continue Reading »
