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A first Alaska DUI means at least 72 consecutive hours, a $1,500 fine, a 90-day revocation and six months of ignition interlock. The minimums for each prior conviction, when a third DUI within 10 years becomes a felony, the 15- and 10-year lookbacks, refusal penalties and the limited license.
Hitting a moose is usually a comprehensive claim on your own policy; swerving into a tree or another car usually makes it collision. When another driver is to blame: Alaska's comparative fault rules, crash-reporting duties, damage caps and road-maintenance claims against the state.
An Alaska court cannot forbid a parent from moving, but it decides where the child lives after the move. The Moeller-Prokosch two-step test, how the AS 25.24.150(g) domestic violence presumption changes the analysis, protective-order custody, and the risks of leaving before a court rules.
Alaska has no statute that assigns Thanksgiving or Christmas to either parent; your parenting plan does. How families split the holidays, what a long-distance plan should say about flights to and from the Lower 48, who pays the airfare under Rule 90.3(g), and the $200 remedy for denied visits.
Workers' comp is usually the only claim you have against an Alaska employer, but a negligent driver, equipment maker, other contractor or property owner can be sued too. How the two claims differ, what comp pays in 2026, the 15-day reporting rule, and how the insurer is repaid.
With no will, an Alaska spouse takes the whole estate or $100,000 to $200,000 plus a fraction of the rest, and children, parents and siblings follow in a fixed order. The $27,000 homestead allowance, stepchildren, the 120-hour rule and the $50,000 small estate affidavit explained.
Alaska grades theft by value and by what was taken: under $250 is fourth degree, $250 to $749 third, $750 to $24,999 second and $25,000 or more first. How firearms, priors, the 180-day aggregation rule, shoplifting, restitution and sentencing ranges change the picture.
After an Alaska air taxi, floatplane, flightseeing or helicopter crash, injured passengers generally have two years to sue and families two years from the death. Who can be liable, how GARA, the Montreal Convention and NTSB rules change the case, and how Alaska caps and fault-sharing work.
Chapter 7 vs Chapter 13 in Alaska: the means test, Alaska's exemption choice, how the Permanent Fund Dividend is treated, and what filing in the Anchorage bankruptcy court involves.
Alaska space law explained: the Pacific Spaceport Complex on Kodiak Island, FAA commercial launch licensing under Part 450, required liability insurance, cross-waivers, and third-party claims.
Alaska snowmachine crashes are their own category of personal injury — AS 28.39 registration, recreational immunity under AS 09.65.145, pure comparative fault, and the two-year deadline.
Alaska medical malpractice is a fault-driven, expert-heavy civil claim under AS 09.55.540, filtered through the AS 09.55.549 advisory panel, with a two-year deadline and statutory damages caps.
Slipped on ice in Anchorage? Alaska premises liability law does not follow the 'natural accumulation' rule some states use, and pure comparative fault means a partial share of blame is not a bar.
