Ketchikan Gateway Borough Quitclaim Deed (Individual Grantor by Attorney-in-Fact) Form

On an Alaska quitclaim deed executed under a power of attorney, the signature line does not carry the grantor's handwriting; it carries the agent's. This form is configured for one individual grantor whose attorney-in-fact, the agent named in a power of attorney, signs the conveyance for the principal. The deed works the way AS 34.15.040 describes: the statutory operative words "conveys and quitclaims" pass whatever interest the grantor holds in the described real estate, if any, with no warranty of title.

One Grantor, One Agent Signature

The form recites one individual grantor and, in its own numbered section, the attorney-in-fact acting for that grantor. A third section identifies the power of attorney by date and recording reference, so the instrument the agent relies on is readable from the face of the deed. The signature area carries the agent's signature line, a conditional joinder line for the grantor's spouse where Alaska's family-home rule (AS 34.15.010(b)) applies, and a separate acknowledgment certificate for each signer, so the agent and a joining spouse can appear before different notaries on different dates. Owners who travel or live outside Alaska for extended periods, principals whose affairs run under a durable power of attorney during illness or long-term care, and families completing a transfer while the owner is unavailable to sign present the pattern this deed recites. The form is not set up for entity grantors, for multiple grantors, or for a grantor signing personally.

Authority the Record Can Verify

Alaska's power of attorney statutes, AS 13.26.600 through AS 13.26.695, define what an agent can do with land. In a statutory form power of attorney, a grant of general authority over real estate transactions reaches the power to sell, exchange, convey, and quitclaim an estate or interest in land (AS 13.26.665(a)). A gift of the principal's property stands on different footing: gift power is a specific authority the principal marks separately under AS 13.26.665(q), a point that matters when a quitclaim moves property to a relative for nominal consideration. Powers of attorney are themselves recordable instruments in Alaska and, like deeds, take an acknowledgment for recording under AS 40.17.110(b). Recording statutes attach evidentiary presumptions to acknowledged and recorded title documents under AS 40.17.090(b), including presumptions that speak of a person acting as attorney-in-fact under a recorded power of attorney, which is why Alaska practice puts the power on record in the same recording district as the deed.

A Representative Acknowledgment, Not an Individual One

The notary certificate on this form follows the short form Alaska supplies for an individual acting as principal by an attorney-in-fact under AS 09.63.100(a)(5): the instrument is acknowledged by the named agent as attorney-in-fact on behalf of the named principal. The venue lines take Alaska's judicial districts as well as a county or municipality when the signing happens in another state. Alaska deeds take no subscribing witnesses; the acknowledgment is the execution formality for recording.

Recording with the District, Statewide Rules

Alaska records conveyances through a statewide system of recording districts administered by the Department of Natural Resources, and this deed names its district on the first page as the indexing rules require. The first page reserves a two-inch band for the recorder's stamp, the margins and 10 point type follow 11 AAC 06.040, and the return-address block satisfies AS 40.17.030(a)(7). Recording fees run per page, currently $20 for the first page and $5 for each additional page, and Alaska imposes no statewide real estate transfer tax. Under the race-notice rule of AS 40.17.080, an unrecorded deed is valid between the parties but void against a later innocent purchaser who records first, so the recording trip completes the transfer in a practical sense.

The download delivers the fillable quitclaim deed formatted for Alaska recording, a completed example showing the deed filled in for an Anchorage Recording District property, and a guide walking through the statutes behind each section. The power of attorney itself is a separate instrument, prepared and recorded separately, and is not included in this package. These materials are informational and are not legal advice; an Alaska attorney can apply the statutes to a particular title and power of attorney.