Rule 5.3. Electronic Distribution by the Court

(a) When Allowed. The Alaska Court System may use

electronic mail to distribute notices, orders, judgments, and

other documents to attorneys, to court-appointed professionals,

and to agencies and other entities that routinely receive

documents from the court. Self-represented persons may opt in

to e-mail distribution.

(b) E-Mail Addresses.

(1) Attorneys. All Alaska bar members who have cases

pending in state court must provide a current e-mail address to

the

Alaska

Bar

Association

at

http://www.alaskabar.org/members. The Alaska Court System

will use the bar association database for document distribution

to Alaska bar members. Attorneys who are not members of the

Alaska Bar Association but are appearing in a particular state

court proceeding may, if they want the court to distribute

documents to them directly by e-mail, submit a current e-mail

address and their case number to the court system at

E-distribution@akcourts.gov.

All attorneys may associate other e-mail addresses with

their own, such as those of support staff or other attorneys, by

supplementing their information with the Alaska Bar

Association (for Alaska bar members) or the court system (for

non-Alaska bar members) as specified above. Those associated

e-mail addresses will receive all court e-mails sent in all cases

to the principal attorney, and not just those in a particular case.

(2) Agencies and other entities. Agencies and other

entities that routinely receive court documents shall provide

the court system, at E-distribution@akcourts.gov, with a single

e-mail address for each office location or optionally with a

single e-mail address for each sub-group that handles distinct

case types at an office location.

Notwithstanding paragraph (b)(1), an agency may elect to

have the court distribute documents to its attorneys at the

relevant agency address provided above. Upon notice filed in a

pending case, the court will also distribute documents to the

agency attorney’s individual e-mail address.

y with a

single e-mail address for each sub-group that handles distinct

case types at an office location.

Notwithstanding paragraph (b)(1), an agency may elect to

have the court distribute documents to its attorneys at the

relevant agency address provided above. Upon notice filed in a

pending case, the court will also distribute documents to the

agency attorney’s individual e-mail address.

(3) Guardians Ad Litem, Court Visitors, and Custody

Investigators. Professionals appointed by the court shall submit

an e-mail address and identify their role in the case at E-

distribution@akcourts.gov.

(4) Self-Represented Parties. Self-represented parties

may file a notice in their case requesting e-distribution of court

documents to a specified e-mail address. Absent a request to

use a different service address, self-represented parties who

file documents by e-mail are deemed to have requested e-

distribution of court documents to that same e-mail address.

(5) Changes to e-mail addresses. Changes to e-mail

addresses must be provided immediately using the same

method that was used to provide the e-mail address initially.

(c) Time for Response. E-mail distributions will be

treated as if conventionally mailed for purposes of computing

the due date of any required or optional response. But no

additional time shall be added if a court order specifies a

particular date by which an act must occur.

(d) Certified Documents. The court will send certified

copies by first class mail of:

•

Letters Testamentary,

•

Letters of Administration,

•

Letters of Guardianship,

•

Letters of Conservatorship,

•

Orders Approving Minor Settlement,

•

Certificates of Name Changes,

•

Dissolution and Divorce Decrees,

•

Qualified Domestic Relations Orders,

•

Orders Dividing Military Retired Pay,

•

Adoption Decrees with associated Findings and

Conclusions, and

•

Financial Abuse Protection Orders.

Certified copies of other court documents may be

requested as needed.

Letters of Conservatorship,

•

Orders Approving Minor Settlement,

•

Certificates of Name Changes,

•

Dissolution and Divorce Decrees,

•

Qualified Domestic Relations Orders,

•

Orders Dividing Military Retired Pay,

•

Adoption Decrees with associated Findings and

Conclusions, and

•

Financial Abuse Protection Orders.

Certified copies of other court documents may be

requested as needed.

(e) Standards. The administrative director may adopt

technical and procedural standards for electronic distribution

by the court.

Note to Civil Rule 5.3(e): See Administrative Bulletin 89.