Ketchikan Gateway Borough Quitclaim Deed (Joint and Community Property Grantors) Form

Two owners sign this Alaska quitclaim deed, and the form is arranged around that fact: a first grantor and a second grantor, each with a mailing address entry, each with a signature line, and each with an acknowledgment certificate of its own. What the pair releases is whatever interest the two of them hold in the described parcel, if any, with no warranty of title, and a recital on the face of the deed states how they hold it of record.

What Joint Ownership Means on an Alaska Title

Alaska sits apart from most states here, which is why a two-owner quitclaim deed for Alaska is not simply a form with a second signature line added. AS 34.15.130 abolished joint tenancy in real property, leaving tenancy by the entirety as the one survivorship co-ownership the statute preserves, and persons holding an undivided interest in land are tenants in common. Spouses who acquire title together hold by the entirety under AS 34.15.110(b) unless the conveyance expresses a contrary intention. Community property reaches Alaska land only where spouses opt in, by agreement under AS 34.77.090 or by trust under AS 34.77.100, with the title wording supplied by AS 34.77.110. Those are the two-owner holdings an Alaska record actually shows, and Section 3 of this deed carries whichever one applies, copied from the vesting instrument.

Two Grantors, Two Certificates

The form recites exactly two grantors, each with the complete mailing address AS 40.17.030(a)(8) makes an element of recording, and it carries two signature blocks with a separate acknowledgment certificate beneath each, so the signers may appear before different notaries on different dates. Both signatures do statutory work in two situations: married grantors conveying the family home or homestead join in the deed under AS 34.15.010(b), and community property held in the and form of AS 34.77.110(b) answers to AS 34.77.040(b), under which the spouses act together. Co-owners selling a parcel to an outside buyer, spouses passing a cabin to their adult children, and two co-owners quitclaiming a fenced strip to a neighbor to end a boundary question all present the two-grantor pattern this deed recites. What the form is not set up as: a lone owner's conveyance, which carries one signature and one certificate; a deed from three or more record owners; or a conveyance by a company or a fiduciary, where the capacity recital and the notarial short form change.

Conveys and Quitclaims, in the Plural

The operative words belong to the statute. AS 34.15.040 gives Alaska a quitclaim form whose words, conveys and quitclaims, reach all interest the grantor has, if any, in the described real estate, and AS 34.15.050 adds that a quitclaim and release in the form in common use passes all a grantor could pass by a deed of bargain and sale. This deed performs that act in the plural, with a sentence in which each grantor joins, whether that grantor's interest is an undivided share, an entirety interest, or community property. It then states in capital letters that it makes no covenant or warranty of title, the posture AS 34.15.080 sets by refusing to imply covenants. The grantee side stays open: one grantee or several may be named, with a designation blank beneath the names for the form of title they take.

Indexed Names at the Recording Counter

Four parties on one deed is the point at which Alaska's indexing charge becomes worth knowing. The statewide schedule in 11 AAC 05.200 asks 20 dollars for the first page, 5 dollars for each page after it, and 2 dollars for indexing each name beyond six, so two grantors plus a grantee or two sit comfortably under that line. The deed names its recording district on the first page, as AS 40.17.030(a)(9) calls for, and travels to the Department of Natural Resources office serving that district, because Alaska keeps no county recorders and collects no statewide transfer tax with an ordinary conveyance. Timing carries its own consequence: AS 40.17.080 gives a recorded deed constructive notice of its contents from recording, while a conveyance left unrecorded is void against a later good faith purchaser for value whose deed reaches the record first.

The download delivers the fillable two-grantor quitclaim deed built to Alaska's format standards, a completed example filled in for a Palmer Recording District parcel, and a plain-language guide covering each numbered section, the acknowledgments, and the recording steps. These materials describe Alaska law in general terms and are not legal advice.