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The Alaska Supreme Court affirmed the dismissal of a declaratory judgment lawsuit brought by the trustee of an Alaska Domestic Asset Protection Trust (DAPT), which sought to declare that fraudulent transfer judgments entered in Montana and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court which voided transfers of Montana property to the Alaska DAPT were void and unenforceable, because Alaska courts could not restrict the forum for decisions relating to transfers to self-settled trusts formed under Alaska law exclusively to themselves. However, the Alaska decision did not hold or even indicate that Alaska self-settled trusts were void or voidable. In fact, the decision has no bearing on the viability of a self-settled trust created under the law of any state which does not allow the settlor’s creditors access to the trust assets when the transfers to the trust were not fraudulent.
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