Alaska Statutes 13.06.030 – Effect of fraud and evasion; limitations
Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 13.06.030
- Decedent: A deceased person.
- Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
- Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
- 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
- Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
Whenever fraud has been perpetrated in connection with any proceeding or in any statement filed under Alaska Stat. Chapter 13.06 – Alaska Stat. Chapter 13.36 or if fraud is used to avoid or circumvent the provisions or purposes of Alaska Stat. Chapter 13.06 – Alaska Stat. Chapter 13.36, any person injured thereby may obtain appropriate relief against the perpetrator of the fraud or restitution from any person, other than a bona fide purchaser, benefiting from the fraud, whether innocent or not. Any proceeding must be commenced within two years after the discovery of the fraud, but no proceeding may be brought against one not a perpetrator of the fraud later than five years after the time of commission of the fraud. This section has no bearing on remedies relating to fraud practiced on a decedent during the decedent’s lifetime that affects the succession of the decedent’s estate.