Quitclaim Deed in Pennsylvania

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 Pennsylvania law says

Signing and recording a deed	Deeds are recorded with the county Recorder of Deeds. Pennsylvania imposes a state realty transfer tax of 1% of the value of the real estate, collected by the Recorder of Deeds, often together with an additional local realty transfer tax; the grantor and grantee are jointly and severally liable for it. Certain transfers are exempt, including certain transfers among family members and property passing by will or intestacy. The local transfer tax rate varies by municipality and school district; check with the county Recorder of Deeds. Deeds are customarily acknowledged before a notary for recording. Source: 72 P.S. § 8101-C et seq. (Realty Transfer Tax)
Transfer-on-death deed	No. Pennsylvania has not adopted a transfer on death deed for real estate. Its transfer on death law covers securities and security accounts registered in beneficiary form. Source: 20 Pa.C.S. Ch. 64

Signing and recording a deed

Deeds are recorded with the county Recorder of Deeds. Pennsylvania imposes a state realty transfer tax of 1% of the value of the real estate, collected by the Recorder of Deeds, often together with an additional local realty transfer tax; the grantor and grantee are jointly and severally liable for it. Certain transfers are exempt, including certain transfers among family members and property passing by will or intestacy.

The local transfer tax rate varies by municipality and school district; check with the county Recorder of Deeds. Deeds are customarily acknowledged before a notary for recording.

Source: 72 P.S. § 8101-C et seq. (Realty Transfer Tax)

Transfer-on-death deed

No. Pennsylvania has not adopted a transfer on death deed for real estate. Its transfer on death law covers securities and security accounts registered in beneficiary form.

Source: 20 Pa.C.S. Ch. 64

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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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