By Sea Sitka is a year-round port of call for the Alaska Marine Highway System (1-800-642-0066, www.dot.state.ak.us/amhs/). These state-operated ferries provide an extraordinary opportunity to navigate the Inside Passage at a leisurely pace.
Spouses in community property states are generally entitled to take all community property at death, and half in the case of divorce. If the husband inherited the property, or took title to it before the marriage, for example, the wife would not automatically be entitled to a share of it.
Upon a wifeâs death, her husbandâs curtesy right gave him a life estate in all (and not just one-third of) real property owned by the wife during marriage. However, a husbandâs curtesy estate arose only if issue were born to the marriage. Intestate Succession Rules.