Haines Borough Quitclaim Deed (Joint and Community Property Grantors) Form

One deed, two grantors: this configuration of the Alaska quitclaim deed moves a married couple's entire interest in one instrument, with a co-ownership statement, two signature lines, and a separate acknowledgment certificate for each spouse. The form recites two grantors who are married to each other and who together hold the interest conveyed, whether as tenants by the entirety or as Alaska community property, and it conveys and quitclaims that interest under AS 34.15.040 with no warranty of title.

The Whole Marital Interest in One Instrument

The deed's co-ownership section states that the grantors are married to each other and together hold the entire interest conveyed, followed by an entry reciting the form of title the record shows, copied from the couple's vesting deed or their community property agreement or trust. Both spouses sign as grantors, and each signature carries its own acknowledgment certificate, so the two grantors may acknowledge on different dates, before different notarial officers, or in different places. Spouses deeding a jointly held Anchorage or Fairbanks property to an adult child, a couple conveying entireties land to a single buyer in a transaction between familiar parties, and married owners passing the whole title into one grantee's name present the two-grantor pattern this quit claim deed recites. The form is set up for exactly two record owners married to each other; a conveyance by one owner alone, or by co-owners who are not married to each other, follows a different signing and recital pattern.

Entireties Title and Alaska's Opt-In Community Property

Alaska gives married couples two distinctive ways of holding land together, and this form's recital accommodates both. Spouses who acquire Alaska real property ordinarily take as tenants by the entirety under AS 34.15.110(b), an estate AS 34.15.140 preserves along with its right of survivorship; AS 34.15.130 abolishes other joint tenancies in Alaska land, which makes the entirety the state's characteristic spousal title. Alaska is also the rare separate-property state with opt-in community property: couples may classify property as community property, or as survivorship community property, through a written agreement or trust under AS 34.77. In either regime the whole title sits in the couple, which is exactly why this deed collects both signatures before anything moves.

Joinder on the Face of the Deed

AS 34.15.010(b) requires husband and wife to join in a deed or conveyance of the family home or homestead, and the Alaska Supreme Court has treated a conveyance of entireties-titled homestead property signed by one spouse alone as invalid. Because this form places both spouses on the grantor line and both acknowledgments on the instrument, the statutory joinder appears on the face of the recorded deed, where a title examiner looks for it.

Recording in the Property's District

The deed identifies the Alaska recording district where the property sits, an item AS 40.17.030(a)(9) makes part of recording eligibility, and it goes to the State Recorder's Office for that district with the statewide fee of $20 for the first page and $5 for each additional page. Alaska collects no transfer tax with an ordinary deed. The form reserves the top of its first page for the recorder's stamp, keeps the 10 point minimum type size, and carries the return address block the recorder requires before accepting a document.

What Arrives with the Download

The download package contains three items: the blank fillable quitclaim deed formatted to Alaska recording standards, a completed example showing a married couple's entireties conveyance recorded in the Anchorage Recording District, and a guide that walks through every section of the form, the acknowledgment certificates, and the recording process. The package arrives as an instant download after purchase. The materials describe Alaska law in general terms and are not legal advice; an Alaska attorney can address how these rules apply to a particular title or family.