Probate in Kenai Peninsula Borough

Probate Court Record

Kenai Peninsula Borough Superior Court

Kenai Peninsula Borough · 3rd Judicial District

Hours

Monday-Friday 8:00 AM-4:30 PM

Office

125 Trading Bay Drive, Suite 100, Kenai, AK 99611

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Verified October 15, 2026 · Source

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Guardianship Firms Serving Kenai Peninsula Borough

Downtown Anchorage firm on L Street working estates through the Third Judicial District court. Handles informal and formal probate, trust and estate administration, probate disputes and will contests, and guardianships and conservatorships, alongside wills, trusts, and elder-law planning. Founding partner Leonard R. Anderson sits on Alaska's Probate Rules Committee.

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Anchorage firm (BF Quackenbush Law) practicing in Alaska's Third Judicial District, with an office also in Vancouver, Washington. Its probate and estate planning department guides executors and administrators through probate, represents trustees and beneficiaries in trust disputes and will contests, and handles guardianships and conservatorships. Offers a free consultation for estates cases.

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Anchorage firm on West Seventh Avenue handling probate and post-death administration of revocable trusts, affidavits of collection and heirship, ancillary probate, and federal estate tax returns for personal representatives and trustees. Robert Manley, who opened the firm with Peter Brautigam in 2004, is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.

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Anchorage firm handling formal and informal probate: appointment of the personal representative, the inventory, notice to creditors, creditor claims, and final distribution, plus will disputes and wrongful death claims brought by the estate. Also drafts revocable living trusts, special needs trusts, wills, and powers of attorney, and handles guardianship and conservatorship.

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Anchorage estate firm where Tonja Woelber has helped families plan for over 30 years. Handles probate and trust administration and litigation, and guardianship and conservatorship proceedings, and drafts wills, trusts, and powers of attorney. Woelber has chaired or co-chaired the Alaska Bar's Estate Planning and Probate Section three times.

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Downtown Anchorage firm representing personal representatives and heirs through contested and uncontested probate in the Third Judicial District court, taking matters from anywhere in the state — Mat-Su Valley to Juneau to Utqiagvik. Also handles small-estate affidavits of collection, ancillary probate for out-of-state decedents, trust administration, and contested guardianships.

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Forms for Planning and Settling an Estate in Alaska

Free Alaska forms to plan or settle an estate: a will, trust, powers of attorney, TOD deed and the probate forms. Prepare each form for Alaska.

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Last Will and Testament

In Alaska, a will is signed before 2AS 13.12.502Verified Oct 18, 2026View source witnesses, and a self-proving affidavit signed with it lets the court admit it without witness testimonyAS 13.12.502Verified Oct 18, 2026View source.

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Healthcare Power of Attorney

Alaska allows a choice for a healthcare power of attorney: 2AS 13.52.300Verified Oct 15, 2026View source witnesses or a notary.

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Financial Power of Attorney

Alaska requires explicit durability language for a power of attorney to survive incapacityAS 13.26.600, AS 13.26.605, AS 13.26.610, AS 13.26.615, AS 13.26.620, AS 13.26.625, AS 13.26.645, AS 13.26.650, AS 13.26.660, AS 13.26.665, AS 13.26.670, AS 13.26.675, AS 13.26.680, AS 13.26.695; AS 40.17.080, AS 40.17.090, AS 40.17.110 (recording); AS 13.28.010-095 (interstate recognition)Verified Oct 21, 2026View source, and it is signed before a notaryAS 13.26.600, AS 13.26.605, AS 13.26.610, AS 13.26.615, AS 13.26.620, AS 13.26.625, AS 13.26.645, AS 13.26.650, AS 13.26.660, AS 13.26.665, AS 13.26.670, AS 13.26.675, AS 13.26.680, AS 13.26.695; AS 40.17.080, AS 40.17.090, AS 40.17.110 (recording); AS 13.28.010-095 (interstate recognition)Verified Sep 18, 2026View source.

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Revocable Living Trust

Create a revocable living trust to avoid probate, protect privacy, and control asset distribution.

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Tools for Planning and Settling an Estate in Alaska

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How Much Life Insurance Do I Need?

In Alaska, four years at a public university cost about $85,936NCES Digest of Education Statistics 2023, Table 330.20, public 4-year in-state tuition, fees, room and board, academic year 2022-23Verified Oct 17, 2026View source and the cost of living is near the U.S. averageBEA Regional Price Parities, all items, by state, 2024Verified Oct 17, 2026View source; no state estate or inheritance tax appliesAlaska levies no estate or inheritance tax. AS 43.31.011 (Estate Tax Law of Alaska) remains on the books but is an inert "pickup" tax — its amount is measured by "the credit allowable under the applicable federal revenue Act for estate, inheritance, legacy, and succession taxes actually paid to the several states," and that federal credit no longer exists, so the tax computes to $0. AS 43.31.400 keeps the chapter nominally operative so long as a federal estate tax exists, so this is an inert pickup rather than a repeal. Alaska Department of Revenue: "Alaska no longer has an estate tax. Alaska did have one until Jan. 1, 2005. The state estate tax was tied to the federal state death tax credit, and that credit was phased out in 2005." Alaska has no inheritance tax: AS 43.30 (Inheritance and Transfer Taxes) was repealed in full by § 1, ch. 24, SLA 1970, and the DOR tax-type list carries no inheritance tax program. Verified 2026-09-10.Verified Sep 15, 2026View source.

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What Does Estate Planning Actually Cost?

An attorney-prepared revocable trust in Alaska runs $3,300Estimate: 10 hours at $330, Clio's Alaska Trusts rate; Compare Lawyer Rates, 2025 dataVerified Oct 15, 2026View source to $4,950Estimate: 15 hours at $330, Clio's Alaska Trusts rate; Compare Lawyer Rates, 2025 dataVerified Oct 15, 2026View source and a simple will $1,119Estimate: 3 hours at $373, Clio's Alaska Wills and Estates rate; Compare Lawyer Rates, 2025 dataVerified Oct 15, 2026View source to $2,238Estimate: 6 hours at $373, Clio's Alaska Wills and Estates rate; Compare Lawyer Rates, 2025 dataVerified Oct 15, 2026View source, against $0 to $549 up front plus a subscription with an online service.

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Who Inherits Without a Will?

Without a will in Alaska, a surviving spouse takes the entire estateAS § 13.12.102Verified Oct 21, 2026View source when every child of either spouse is a child of both, and descendants divide what passes to them per capita at each generationAS § 13.12.106Verified Oct 21, 2026View source.

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