Alaska, court records
Alaska has one statewide court system. Search its trial and appellate cases in CourtView Public Access, and federal cases in PACER.
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Overview of the Alaska Court System: the Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, superior and district courts, and statewide court administration.
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Trial courts home page with calendars, eFiling, hearings and trials, jury service, online payments, copy requests and case search for the superior and district courts.
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Statewide name index of trial court cases with case number, party names and case type, and a guide to which cases are removed from public view.
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Supreme Court and Court of Appeals: slip opinions, oral argument calendars, appeals self-help, appellate procedure, forms and appellate case search.
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Court self-help guides on family law, small claims, probate, guardianship, domestic violence, name changes, traffic cases, appeals and filing fee waivers.
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Starting point for CourtView searches of trial and appellate cases. The court warns that a case search is not a criminal history check from the Department of Public Safety.
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Home page of the Alaska Court System, with links to the appellate courts, trial courts, forms, rules, self-help and the state law library.
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Full text of the Alaska Rules of Court, from administration, adoption and appellate procedure to civil procedure and the Code of Judicial Conduct.
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Alaska Court System forms by topic and number, with instructions and publications. Fillable PDF forms should be saved and opened in PDF software.
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Anchorage court directory: Nesbett Courthouse at 825 W 4th Avenue and Boney Courthouse at 303 K Street, customer service (907) 264-0514, hours and jury contacts.
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An Alaska divorce or dissolution file is a superior court record, kept by the clerk of court where the case was filed, and open to the public under Administrative Rule 37.5(d) unless a statute, rule or order makes it confidential. The file holds the complaint or joint petition, the findings and the decree that divide property and debts, any approved settlement agreement, support orders and the DR-305 child support affidavit with its attached tax return and pay stubs. The fuller property and debt disclosure under Civil Rule 26.1 is exchanged between the spouses and never filed, so it is not in the file.
CourtView, the court system's public index, lists domestic relations cases with the parties, case type, docket events and outcomes but no documents and no confidential cases; copies come from the court where the case was filed. A party or anyone affected by disclosure may ask under Administrative Rule 37.6 for an order sealing the file or a document, which the court grants only if a legitimate interest in confidentiality outweighs the public interest in disclosure. The Alaska asset search page explains which filed documents carry the money detail.
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At a glance
CourtView Public Access is the statewide index of Alaska trial and appellate cases. Confidential and sealed cases, and some dismissed cases, are removed from it under Administrative Rule 40.
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State court records are usually free to view at the courthouse and often free online, with per-page fees for certified copies. PACER charges $0.10 per page (capped at $3.00 per document), waived under $30 per quarter.
No. A sealed case is hidden from the public docket index by court order. Its existence may still be confirmable by number, but documents are not accessible.
Civil cases involve disputes between parties (contracts, torts, family). Criminal cases are brought by the government. Both are indexed by the same court clerks but tracked in separate sub-dockets.
Not in one search. PACER covers all federal courts. Most states have a statewide judiciary portal that covers their state courts, but a few require per-county lookups. This page links to Alaska's official portal.
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