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.
However, when. property is left (or given) to a surviving spouse, the unlimited marital deduction, allows spouses to. transfer any amount of property between themselves, during life or at death, without triggering either the. federal estate tax or the federal gift tax. Terminable Interests.