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.
There's another advantage to keeping your inheritance separate from the family pool. You have greater say over how the money is distributed after you die. Simply leaving money to your wife in a will, for instance, may mean her second husband's children receive it after she dies instead of your own.hus if the wife, who has no solely owned assets, inherits $675,000 from her parents, it makes sense for her to keep it in her own name. That way, if she dies first, her estate would be worth the full lifetime credit amount of $675,000 that is exempt from estate taxes.