Terms Used In Alaska Statutes > Title 13 > Chapter 16 > Article 5 - Supervised Administration

• action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• adult: means an individual who has reached the age of majority. See Alaska Statutes 25.23.240
• agency: means any person certified, licensed, or otherwise specially empowered by law or regulation to place minors for adoption. See Alaska Statutes 25.23.240
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• child: means a son or daughter, whether by birth or by adoption. See Alaska Statutes 25.23.240
• court: means the superior court of this state, and, when the context requires, the court of another state empowered to grant petitions for adoption or guardianship or to terminate parental rights. See Alaska Statutes 25.23.240
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• department: means the Department of Family and Community Services. See Alaska Statutes 25.23.240
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• minor: means a person who has not reached the age of majority. See Alaska Statutes 25.23.240
• 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
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• state: means the State of Alaska unless applied to the different parts of the United States and in the latter case it includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• writing: includes printing. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060