Warranty Deed in Michigan

A warranty deed transfers real estate with the seller's promise that the title is good. Before you record it, check your state's signing and recording rules below and your county recorder's formatting rules (margins, preparer and return-address blocks, transfer-tax forms) — recorders reject deeds that miss them.

What Michigan law says

Signing and recording a deed	A register of deeds may not record a deed unless it has been acknowledged or proved as provided by law (MCL 565.47). To be accepted for recording, each signer's name must be printed, typed or stamped beneath the signature in black or dark blue ink and match the acknowledgment; the notary's name must appear on the same page as the notary's signature; each grantee's address must be shown; the instrument must give the name and business address of the person who drafted it; and it must meet margin, type-size and paper rules, with the first line of the first page stating the recordable event (MCL 565.201). Source: MCL 565.47; MCL 565.201
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 register of deeds may not record a deed unless it has been acknowledged or proved as provided by law (MCL 565.47). To be accepted for recording, each signer's name must be printed, typed or stamped beneath the signature in black or dark blue ink and match the acknowledgment; the notary's name must appear on the same page as the notary's signature; each grantee's address must be shown; the instrument must give the name and business address of the person who drafted it; and it must meet margin, type-size and paper rules, with the first line of the first page stating the recordable event (MCL 565.201).

Source: MCL 565.47; MCL 565.201

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]

WARRANTY DEED

For [consideration], [grantor name(s)], of [grantor address] ("Grantor"), grants and conveys to [grantee name(s)], of [grantee address] ("Grantee"), [how grantees take title], 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]

Grantor warrants the title to the property, as provided by [state] law, subject only to: [exceptions, e.g. easements and restrictions of record, current taxes].

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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