In Re the Estate of Fields

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• “Nothing in the probate statutes or rules suggests that a superior court exercising probate jurisdiction is an inferior court without authority to decide questions of a decedent’s interest in property or to issue equitable relief.”
• rejecting the misconception that there is a difference between the probate court and the superior court and explaining that when Alaska adopted the Uniform Probate Code it placed subject matter jurisdiction for probate matters in the superior court

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