Ketchikan Gateway Borough Quitclaim Deed (Married Couple as Grantors) Form

Two signature lines, two acknowledgment certificates, one conveyance: this Alaska quitclaim deed is configured for a married couple as grantors. Both spouses sign the same deed and together convey and quitclaim whatever interest they hold in the described Alaska real property, with no covenant or warranty of title.

Two Spouses, One Deed

The form recites, above the grantor blocks, that the two grantors are married to each other. Each spouse has a grantor block for a full legal name and mailing address, a signature line, and an acknowledgment certificate of the spouse's own, so the two acknowledgments may happen on different dates, in different places, or before different notarial officers. The completed example shows exactly that: one spouse acknowledging on March 10 and the other on March 12, before the same Anchorage notary.

Several record patterns present this two-grantor architecture. Spouses holding record title together, commonly as tenants by the entirety under AS 34.15.110(b), conveying to an adult child or other relative; a couple moving jointly held real estate to the trustee of their revocable trust; and spouses joining in one deed to release their interests and settle a boundary or title question. The form recites exactly two grantors, married to each other; a conveyance by a sole owner, or by co-owners who are not spouses, follows a different signature and joinder pattern and is not what this form is set up as.

The Family Home Joinder, Answered 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 read family home to mean the residence in which the family resides. On this form the joinder question never arises as a gap: both spouses are grantors, both sign, and the conveyance section states that the joinder AS 34.15.010(b) describes is made by their execution of the deed. The statute adds, in AS 34.15.010(c), that joining in a deed creates no title in a spouse who was not otherwise vested, so a spouse who signs without appearing on record title simply joins in the conveyance; the quitclaim form matches that structure, because each grantor passes only the interest that grantor actually holds, if any.

Conveys and Quitclaims Under AS 34.15.040

The operative language follows Alaska's statutory quitclaim deed form: the grantors convey and quitclaim to the grantee all interest they have, if any, in the property. A deed substantially in the statutory form passes all existing legal and equitable rights of the grantors, and AS 34.15.050 confirms that quitclaim wording in common use carries everything the grantors could convey by a deed of bargain and sale. What the deed does not carry is any assurance: AS 34.15.080 bars implied covenants in Alaska conveyances, so the grantee receives the grantors' interest as it stands, subject to matters of record, and title the grantors acquire later does not pass under an ordinary quitclaim deed.

Formatted for the Alaska Recorder

The deed is laid out to Alaska's statewide recording standards: a two inch top margin on the first page for the recorder's stamp, 10 point type, a blank naming the recording district where the property lies, mailing addresses for every grantor and the grantee, and a return-to block so the recorder can mail the original back after recording. Alaska levies no statewide transfer tax and requires no transfer declaration with an ordinary deed, so the completed deed and the recording fee, currently $20 for the first page and $5 for each additional page, ordinarily make a complete recording package.

What Is Delivered

The download contains the blank two-grantor quitclaim deed as a fillable PDF, a completed example showing a married couple's conveyance from start to finish under an Anchorage fact pattern, and a plain-language guide that walks through every section of the form, the signing formalities for both spouses, and the recording process. The materials are informational and are not legal advice.