Quitclaim Deed in Michigan

A quitclaim deed transfers whatever interest you have in real estate, with no promise that the title is good. Before you record it, check your state's signing rules below and your county recorder's formatting rules (margins, paper size, preparer and return-address blocks, transfer-tax forms) — recorders reject deeds that miss them.

What Michigan law says

Signing and recording a deed	A deed to Michigan land must be acknowledged before a notary public, judge or court clerk, and the county register of deeds will not record it unless it is acknowledged. Witnesses are not required. To be recorded, signers' names must be printed beneath original signatures in black or dark blue ink, the grantee's address and the drafter's name and business address must appear, and the document must meet format rules (2.5-inch top margin on page one, half-inch other margins, 10-point type, paper 8.5x11 to 8.5x14, and a first line stating the recordable event). State real estate transfer tax is $3.75 per $500 of value and county transfer tax is $0.55 per $500 (up to $0.75 in counties of 2 million or more). Exemptions include transfers for less than $100 and certain transfers between spouses and to children or grandchildren. Each transfer-tax exemption has conditions; check the exemption list before relying on one. Source: MCL 565.8, 565.47, 565.201; MCL 207.504, 207.525, 207.526

Signing and recording a deed

A deed to Michigan land must be acknowledged before a notary public, judge or court clerk, and the county register of deeds will not record it unless it is acknowledged. Witnesses are not required. To be recorded, signers' names must be printed beneath original signatures in black or dark blue ink, the grantee's address and the drafter's name and business address must appear, and the document must meet format rules (2.5-inch top margin on page one, half-inch other margins, 10-point type, paper 8.5x11 to 8.5x14, and a first line stating the recordable event). State real estate transfer tax is $3.75 per $500 of value and county transfer tax is $0.55 per $500 (up to $0.75 in counties of 2 million or more). Exemptions include transfers for less than $100 and certain transfers between spouses and to children or grandchildren.

Each transfer-tax exemption has conditions; check the exemption list before relying on one.

Source: MCL 565.8, 565.47, 565.201; MCL 207.504, 207.525, 207.526

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Recording requested by and return to: [name and mailing address]

QUITCLAIM DEED

For [consideration, e.g. $10 or 'no consideration — gift'], [grantor name(s)], of [grantor address] ("Grantor"), quitclaims to [grantee name(s)], of [grantee address] ("Grantee"), [how grantees take title, e.g. as joint tenants with right of survivorship], all of Grantor's interest in the following real property in [county] County, [state]:

Legal description: [full legal description copied from the current deed]

Commonly known as: [street address] Parcel / tax ID: [parcel number]

Signed on [date signed]. Grantor signature(s): ____________________

[Acknowledgment before a notary public, in the form your state requires, and any witness signatures your state requires]

Send tax statements to: [name and address for tax bills]

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