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Alaska probate filing cost: $250

Alaska Administrative Rule 9 (statewide court Fee Schedule) sets a $250.00 fee upon filing a trust or estate action other than the registration or deposit of a will or trust document. Depositing a will for safekeeping is $50.00 and registering a trust document is $50.00. The fee is a single statewide figure set by Supreme Court order, not a county-variable amount.

$250 is the amount the statute states. Sources reviewed August 9, 2026. Sources rechecked October 3, 2026. This page last revised .

What Alaska statutes set in probate fees at a $100,000 estate

  • Court filing: $250 (Alaska R. Admin. 9 (Fee Schedule)).
  • Personal representative: no percentage in the statute; AS 13.16.430 provides for reasonable compensation.
Worked example: Alaska estate of $100,000
Court filing$250
Commissionreasonable, not a rate

Statute text checked October 3, 2026: Alaska R. Admin. 9 (Fee Schedule) and AS 13.16.430.

What the statute charges

Every line below is computed from the statutory schedule quoted at the end of this page. These are court charges only. They are not an estimate of the total cost of settling an estate.

Filing a trust or estate action (probate)

Charge$25,000 estate$100,000 estate$400,000 estate$1,000,000 estate
Trust or estate action filing$250$250$250$250
Total from this schedule$250$250$250$250

Not included in this total

  • Publication, certified copies, bond, and letters/certificate fees

Depositing a will for safekeeping is a separate $50 charge; registering a trust document is $50.

Source: Alaska R. Admin. 9 (Fee Schedule), Alaska Court System (Alaska Rules of Court). Edition: not stated by the publisher. Verified October 3, 2026.

What the $250 is made of

Alaska’s $250 figure is a single statutory charge, not a total assembled from parts. It is shown here with its own provision named, and with the neighbouring charges the Alaska schedule prices separately — the ones a filer is most likely to add to it by mistake, or to be quoted alongside it.

  • $250Trust or estate action, Administrative Rule 9 fee schedule

Added together, these come to $250 — the figure this page headlines. If any component changed in the source, the sum would no longer match, and the build withholds the total rather than publishing a number whose parts no longer add up.

Charges the $250 figure leaves out

These amounts appear in or beside the same Alaska schedule, so a reader can easily mistake one for part of the fee. Each is held out of the figure above for the specific reason given, which is the difference between an honest total and an inflated one.

A fee for a different filing

Appellate filing fees, Administrative Rule 9(a)(1)(A)-(D)
the four $250 appellate filing fees (notice of appeal/cross-appeal, petition for review, original proceedings, and petition for hearing) are Supreme Court / Court of Appeals filings, different proceedings from the superior-court trust-or-estate action this product prices.
General civil-case filing fee, Administrative Rule 9(b)(1)
the $250 in (b)(1) is the fee for filing any civil case (including a petition for deposition before action), a different proceeding from the (b)(2)(A) trust-or-estate action.
Preparation of case record for U.S. Supreme Court review, Administrative Rule 9(a)(2)(A)
the $200 is a one-time clerk service fee to prepare a case record for review by the Supreme Court of the United States, a different service from the estate-action filing fee.
Depositing a will for safekeeping, Administrative Rule 9(b)(2)(B)
a different service, expressly carved out of the estate-action fee ("other than the registration or deposit of a will or trust document").
Registration of a trust document, Administrative Rule 9(b)(2)(C)
a different service (registering a trust document), also expressly carved out of the estate-action fee.

A per-copy or per-page charge

Copies of court opinions, Administrative Rule 9(a)(2)(C)
the $5.00 is charged per opinion copied, a per-unit copy charge rather than a filing fee.

What the Alaska figure leaves out

The Alaska caveats are listed once, on the Alaska overview.

Other costs: probate cost lines.

Filing-cost source

Sources rechecked October 3, 2026: Alaska source list · how sources are checked · report a correction

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