IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF ALASKA

                         ORDER NO. 1227

                                   Amending Probate Rule 3
                                   concerning probate indices.

IT IS ORDERED:

     Probate Rule 3 is amended to read as follows:

               (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.

               (b)  Will Index. An alphabetical index of
          all wills on deposit will be kept under the
          name of the person whose will is deposited.

               (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)  Confidentiality. The mental
          commitment index is confidential. Other
          indices are public records even though the
          files may be confidential.



DATED:  February 29, 1996

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 15, 1996


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                                   Chief Justice Compton


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                                   Justice Rabinowitz


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                                   Justice Matthews


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                                   Justice Eastaugh
     

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                                   Justice Fabe