Florida Quitclaim Deed Form

Quitclaim Deed Laws and Requirements in Florida

A quitclaim deed is a document that cannot provide security for the legally verified title. So generally, the form is signed by familiar people, usually family members of the grantor.

Laws

The Florida quitclaim deed is governed by Chapter 695.01 Conveyances and liens to be recorded of the Florida Statuses. Among other more detailed items, the law regulates two critical aspects of the transfer of property rights. Firstly, compensation to the grantor from the receiving party is prohibited because the quitclaim deed is a bona fide gratuitous transfer of property right. Secondly, the property right is given to the transferee with preservation of the current status of pledge or encumbrances at the time of transfer.

Filing Requirements

Here are some situations when individuals can use the Florida quitclaim deed:

• In case of a divorce, when someone gives rights on the part of the common property to their ex-spouse.
• As a gift when someone gives rights to their child, brother, grandparent, and so on.
• Updating the terms of use of property acquired during the marriage.
• Adding a new person to the list of individuals in the document, when previously specified persons in the list of grantees agree to inscribe a child or a spouse.
• Removing one of the individuals from the document when a co-owner decides to give up the ownership.
• Transferring property under the terms of a business or revocable living trust.
• Other circumstances, when the current owner receives rent for a long time or wants to avoid probate or several owners aim to re-register the property’s title.

Signing Requirements

By the local laws, the document must be signed by both parties, a notary public agent, and two witnesses.

Format Requirements

Florida quitclaim deed must not be confused with Florida general warranty deed or the Florida special warranty deed, both of which provide a guarantee of title in varying degrees. A general warranty deed ensures object status throughout the ownership history, while a special warranty deed is responsible only for the current owner.

Unlike both of these forms, the quitclaim deed does not guarantee any security for the object title to a transferee. Thus, the language used in warranty deeds differs from that used in a quitclaim deed.

Extra Requirements

The main language distinction is in the clause denying the grantee any guarantees of title. As the quitclaim deed implies complete refusal to check and control the title, the document does not include a warranty formula that is present in the warranty deeds mentioned above. Quitclaim deed has no phrase indicating the liability of the grantor for the title of the object. Indeed, it contains a statement that the property goes to a new owner with “all the right, title, interest and claim which the said first party has in.”

At the same time, the paper clearly expresses the rights of co-owners and the legal description of the object and contains fields for signatures of the parties. The Florida quitclaim deed form has formal requirements regarding the font size, margins, and so on.

How to Fill Out and File a Quitclaim Deed in Florida

The quitclaim process takes five steps to file the document, and they are as follows:

1. Prepare a legal list or a description of the property and find two witnesses to the transaction.
2. Download or print out the quitclaim application form. Complete the fields “grantor’s name,” “grantor’s address,” “grantee’s name,” “grantee’s address,” “value transferred assets.”
3. Sign the document and give it to a notary public and two witnesses to sign.
4. Pay a fee to the clerk, who will stamp it recorded and return a copy to you.
5. Make a copy of the form and provide it to the other party.

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