Alaska: Oral contract barred by statute

Alaska Statute 13.12.514 (identical to UPC § 2-514) requires that all contracts to make a will or devise be in writing. In its opinion in Cragle v. Gray, 206 P.3d 446 (Alaska 2009), the Alaska Supreme Court held that an oral agreement between a grandmother and her granddaughter providing that the grandmother would give her house to her granddaughter if the granddaughter cared for her for until her death was a succession contract and there void because not in writing.