(a) Except as provided in (b) – (d) of this section, for purposes of intestate succession by, through, or from a person, an individual is the child of the individual’s natural parents, regardless of their marital status, and the parent and child relationship may be established as indicated under Alaska Stat. § 25.20.050.

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Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 13.12.114

  • Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
  • person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, organization, business trust, or society, as well as a natural person. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
(b) An adopted individual is the child of the individual’s adopting parent or parents and not of the individual’s natural parents, but adoption of a child by the spouse of either natural parent does not affect

(1) the relationship between the child and that natural parent; or
(2) the right of the child or a descendant of the child to inherit from or through the other natural parent.
(c) Inheritance from or through a child by either natural parent or the natural parent’s kindred is precluded unless that natural parent has openly treated the child as the natural parent’s child, and has not refused to support the child.
(d) To the extent there is a conflict between this section and either Alaska Stat. § 25.20.050 or Alaska Stat. § 25.23.130, this section controls.