Community Property Trusts

All InterActive Legal drafting systems include a Joint Revocable Trust, which operates as one combined estate planning document for a married couple or unmarried partners.  As a revocable trust, this document also is intended for incapacity…

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This Article analyzes Alaska's new community property law, which permits married residents to elect a community property regime. This Article analyzes the tax aspects when a resident establishes a community property trust. Specifically,…

The state of Alaska has adopted a new community property law which a married couple may elect to treat all of their assets or specific assets as community property. This article discusses the estate planning uses and implications of…

The Alaska Community Property Act, signed into law in May, allows a married Alaskan or an Alaskan married couple to elect for some or all of his, her or their property to become community property, and permits married persons not resident…