Woman Not Due Bigger Share Of Domestic Partner’s Estate, Alaska High Court Affirms

(May 7, 2019, 7:52 PM EDT) -- ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Alaska Supreme Court on April 26 affirmed a lower court decision not to give a larger share of a commercial fisherman’s estate to the woman he lived with for more than 20 years, saying the state’s statutes governing intestate succession trump a decedent’s subjective intentions (In the Matter of the Estate of Jerry Hatten., No. S-16402, Alaska Sup., 2019 Alas. LEXIS 60)....

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