Probate Indices

(a) Estate Index. An alphabetical index of all estate cases will be kept under the name of the person to whose estate the case relates. (c) Protective Proceeding Index. An alphabetical index of all protective proceedings will be kept under the names of the respondents. (d) Mental Commitment Index. An alphabetical index of all mental commitments will be kept under the names of the respondents, except for those files for which the records have been expunged pursuant to AS 47.30.850. An index of expunged files will be kept by number. (e) Registered Trust Index. An alphabetical list of all registered trusts will be kept under the name of the trust. (f) Judicial Bypass Proceeding Index. An alphabetical index of all proceedings to bypass parental consent to an abortion will be kept under the name of the petitioner. (g) Confidentiality. The mental commitment index and the judicial bypass proceeding index are confidential. Other indices are public records even though the files may be confidential. (SCO 1014 effective January 15, 1990; amended by SCO 1227 effective July 15, 1996; and by SCO 1279 effective July 31, 1997)