Quitclaim Deed in Virginia

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 Virginia law says

Signing and recording a deed	The circuit court clerk records a deed for a signer who has acknowledged it (typically before a notary) or whose signature has been proved by two witnesses before the court or clerk. Deeds are recorded in the clerk's office of the circuit court for the county or city where the land lies. A state recordation tax of 25 cents per $100 of the greater of the consideration or the property's assessed value applies, and localities may add their own recordation tax. On a sale, an additional grantor tax of 50 cents per $500 applies (half to the state, half to the locality), and the consideration must be stated on the first page. Exemptions from recordation tax exist, including for transfer on death deeds not given for consideration. Check with the circuit court clerk for local tax rates and recording requirements. Source: Va. Code § 55.1-600; § 58.1-801; § 58.1-802
Transfer-on-death deed	Yes. Virginia has adopted the Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act. A transfer on death deed must contain the essential elements and formalities of a recordable deed, state that the transfer occurs at the owner's death, be recorded before the owner's death in the land records of the circuit court clerk where the property is located, and meet the general recording requirements; if the property is owned jointly, all joint owners must sign. It requires the same capacity as a will, is revocable, and is exempt from recordation tax unless given for consideration. The beneficiary takes subject to existing mortgages and liens; divorce or annulment revokes a transfer to the former spouse unless the deed says otherwise. The statute includes optional forms for the deed and for revocation. Source: Va. Code § 64.2-621 to § 64.2-638 (esp. §§ 64.2-627, 64.2-628, 64.2-632, 64.2-635)

Signing and recording a deed

The circuit court clerk records a deed for a signer who has acknowledged it (typically before a notary) or whose signature has been proved by two witnesses before the court or clerk. Deeds are recorded in the clerk's office of the circuit court for the county or city where the land lies. A state recordation tax of 25 cents per $100 of the greater of the consideration or the property's assessed value applies, and localities may add their own recordation tax. On a sale, an additional grantor tax of 50 cents per $500 applies (half to the state, half to the locality), and the consideration must be stated on the first page.

Exemptions from recordation tax exist, including for transfer on death deeds not given for consideration. Check with the circuit court clerk for local tax rates and recording requirements.

Source: Va. Code § 55.1-600; § 58.1-801; § 58.1-802

Transfer-on-death deed

Yes. Virginia has adopted the Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act. A transfer on death deed must contain the essential elements and formalities of a recordable deed, state that the transfer occurs at the owner's death, be recorded before the owner's death in the land records of the circuit court clerk where the property is located, and meet the general recording requirements; if the property is owned jointly, all joint owners must sign. It requires the same capacity as a will, is revocable, and is exempt from recordation tax unless given for consideration. The beneficiary takes subject to existing mortgages and liens; divorce or annulment revokes a transfer to the former spouse unless the deed says otherwise. The statute includes optional forms for the deed and for revocation.

Source: Va. Code § 64.2-621 to § 64.2-638 (esp. §§ 64.2-627, 64.2-628, 64.2-632, 64.2-635)

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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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