(a) When an interest in real property is conveyed by deed to a person in a trust that is unenforceable under Alaska Stat. § 09.25.010 – 09.25.020 and the intended trustee or the trustee’s successor in interest holds title but refuses to carry out the trust because of Alaska Stat. § 09.25.010 – 09.25.020, the intended trustee or the trustee’s successor in interest, except to the extent that the successor in interest is a bona fide purchaser of a legal interest in the real property, shall convey the interest in real property to the settlor or the settlor’s successor in interest. A court having jurisdiction may prescribe the conditions for conveying the interest to the settlor or the settlor’s successor in interest.
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Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 13.36.170

  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • 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.
  • 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
  • property: includes real and personal property. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
(b) If the intended trustee of an unenforceable trust under (a) of this section transfers part or all of the trustee’s interest and the interest is transferred to a bona fide purchaser, the intended trustee is liable to the settlor or the settlor’s successor in interest for the value, at the time of the transfer, of the interest transferred, less any offsets that a court determines to be equitable.
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