Sec. 13.06.010. Purposes; rule of construction.

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(a)AS 13.06 — AS 13.36 shall be liberally construed and applied to promote their underlying purposes and policies.

(b)The underlying purposes and policies of AS 13.06 — AS 13.36 are to

(1)simplify and clarify the law concerning the affairs of decedents, missing persons, protected persons, minors, and incapacitated persons;

(2)discover and make effective the intent of a decedent in distribution of the decedent's property;

(3)promote a speedy and efficient system for liquidating the estate of the decedent and making distribution to the decedent's successors;

(4)facilitate use and enforcement of certain trusts; and

(5)make uniform the law among the various jurisdictions.