Ketchikan Gateway Borough Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantor) Form

This Alaska quitclaim deed is built around a trustee grantor: the grantor section names the trust by its full name and the date of its trust instrument, the conveyance recites that the signer acts solely as trustee and not individually, and one fiduciary signature with one acknowledgment certificate executes the whole instrument. It is the trustee-capacity configuration of the statutory quitclaim form at AS 34.15.040, prepared for recording through Alaska's district-based land records system.

A Deed Signed in Trustee Capacity

The form recites exactly one trustee as grantor. The trustee's name and complete mailing address, the trust's full name, and the trust instrument's date sit together in the grantor section, so the face of the deed shows which trust the conveyed interest leaves. The signature line and its printed-name entry carry the same capacity, and the certificate's by-line does too, following the representative-capacity pattern of Alaska's statutory acknowledgment short forms in AS 09.63.100. The capacity recital states the capacity in which the trustee signs; the trust instrument, or a certification of trust under AS 13.36.079, prepared separately and not included in this package, remains the document a title examiner consults about the trustee's appointment and powers.

A trustee distributing trust real property to a beneficiary in the course of administration, the trustee of a revocable living trust conveying a parcel back to its settlor, and a successor trustee releasing the trust's interest to settle a title question present the trustee-grantor pattern this deed recites. The form carries one fiduciary signer only: a trust whose terms call for two cotrustees to act together presents a multiple-signature pattern this form does not carry, and an owner moving property into a trust signs in an individual capacity, a different configuration of the quitclaim form.

Conveys and Quitclaims, With the Trust on the Face of the Deed

The operative words come straight from the statute. AS 34.15.040 supplies a short quitclaim form built on the words conveys and quitclaims, reaching all interest the grantor has, if any, and Alaska treats a deed written substantially in that pattern as a conveyance, release, and quitclaim in fee of the grantor's existing legal and equitable rights. Here those words run through the fiduciary recital: the grantor conveys and quitclaims solely as trustee of the identified trust, in the exercise of the powers the trust instrument and AS 13.36.107 and AS 13.36.109 place in a trustee, powers that include disposing of trust property and executing the instruments that carry a disposition out. The deed states that it conveys without covenant or warranty of title, the posture AS 34.15.080 reinforces by barring implied covenants in Alaska conveyances, so the grantee takes exactly the interest the trust held and nothing more.

Ready for the District Where the Land Sits

The face of the deed collects what Alaska's recording-eligibility review reads for: a document title reflecting its intent, the recording district identification called for by AS 40.17.030(a)(9), complete mailing addresses for trustee and grantee alike, a full legal description with the source of title beneath it, and a return-to block complete with zip code. The acknowledgment prints Alaska's own venue arrangement, a blank followed by the words JUDICIAL DISTRICT, with the venue lines accommodating an out-of-state notarization when the trustee signs elsewhere. Because a quit claim deed from a trust triggers no Alaska transfer tax and no transfer declaration, what goes to the recorder is ordinarily the deed itself and the statewide recording fee.

The download delivers three pieces: the blank trustee quitclaim deed as a fillable PDF, a completed example showing the form filled in for a realistic Fairbanks Recording District fact pattern, and a plain-language guide covering each numbered section, the trustee acknowledgment, and the recording steps. The materials describe Alaska law in general terms and are not legal advice.