Wills

BBNA Land Management Services staff urges all landowners, including heirs, to have a Will.  BBNA no longer provides the service of assisting landowners with Wills (writing of Wills, revising Wills nor storage of new Wills or revised Wills and/or Codicils).  If a landowner needs assistance with a Will, they are requested to contact the nearest Alaska Legal Services Office or a private attorney.

Transactions

Gift deeds, sales, Revocable Use Permits, leases, easements, trespasses, partitions, land exchanges, gravel and sand permits, and subdivision reviews are a few transactions with which Realty routinely assists. Revocable Use Permits, leases and gravel permits are effective options for generating income from Native allotments or townsites without selling the land. Land partitions are sometimes used if heirs wish to subdivide inherited property so that each can receive a deed (title) to his or her part of the property. Thus individual heirs can use their portion for their own purposes without having to have the consent of the other heirs. Without a partition it can sometimes be difficult to manage land owned by several heirs, since all must agree on how the property is to be used.