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June 2012 |
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Preparing a Standard Real Estate Deed in Lagrange County, Indiana |
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The recording act in Indiana is a race-notice statute. A later buyer who pays fair value, does not have notice of any earlier conflicting interests, and records first, wins and will have priority over any later recordings.
Easements, general warranty deeds, quit claim deeds, and other instruments pertaining to real property located in in Lagrange County can be recorded with the County Recorder.
REQUIREMENTS FOR DOCUMENTS
• A document should not be on paper larger than 8.5x14 inches. Individual pages should not be permanently bound or in a continuous form. White paper of at least 20 # weight with clean margins is required.
• On the first and last page, margins of at least 2 inches should be on the top and bottom. Top and bottom margins within the document should be eat least ½ an inch. Side margins should be at least ½ an inch.
• Computer generated black ink with a font size of 10 point is needed for legibility.
• A document must be notarized in order to be recorded.
• Each notarized document in Indiana is required to have an affirmation statement after the “Prepared by” statement. At the conclusion of the document, after providing the preparer’s information, the following statement should be given: “I affirm, under the penalties for perjury, that I have taken reasonable care to redact each Social Security number in this document, unless required by law (name).” The name in the affirmation statement can be typed, hand printed, or signed and does not have to be the same person whose name appears in the “Prepared by” statement.
• The recorder may record a deed of partition, a conveyance of land, or an affidavit of transfer to real estate only if it has been endorsed by the county auditor as “duly entered for taxation subject to final acceptance for transfer,” “not taxable,” or “duly entered for taxation.”
• Corresponding names should be typed or printed beneath signatures. This should include the name of the person executing the instrument, the witnesses, and the name of each notary public whose signature appears on the instrument.
• If the instrument is a copy it should be marked as “copy.”
• The conveyance must include the mailing address to which statements should be mailed. If the mailing address is not a street address or rural route of the grantee, the conveyance must also include a street address or rural route address of the grantee after the mailing address.
• A legal description of the real property being conveyed should be provided with the document.
• Documents that reference a previously recorded instrument should provide the book and page number of the instrument of record.
SALES DISCLOSURE FORM
Indiana law requires a sales disclosure form to be reviewed for completeness by the county assessor before being forwarded to the county auditor. This form must be completed whenever a conveyance document is filed.
A separate sales disclosure form is required for each parcel conveyed, regardless of whether more than one parcel is conveyed under a single conveyance document. However, only one sales disclosure form is required if there is a single conveyance document that conveys two or more contiguous parcels located entirely in one taxing district. A person filing a sales disclosure form marked only with sales conditions subject to a disclosure filing fee shall pay a $10 fee to the county auditor.
A conveyance document means any transfer of real property interest for valuable consideration to include any document, deed, contract of sale, agreement, judgment, or lease that includes the fee simple estate and is for a period of excess in 90 years, quit claim deed serving as a source of title, and any document presented for recording that purports to transfer a real property interest for valuable consideration.
RECORDING COSTS
To record the first page of a deed (not to exceed 8.5x14 inches), the fee is $16. Each additional page is $2.
To record the first page of a mortgage (not to exceed 8.5x14 inches), the fee is $14. Each additional page is $2.
Affidavits or other documents (not to exceed 8.5x14 inches) are $11 for the first page and $2 for each additional page.
A release, partial release, or assignment is $12 for the first page and $2 for each additional page.
A land contract or easement is $11 for the first page and $2 for each additional page.
Any document exceeding 8.5x14 inches is $20 for the first page and $5 for each additional page.
A $1 fee will apply to non-conforming pages.
Each cross reference of a recorded document is $1.
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| Recorder Office Information |
| LaGrange County Recorder |
| 114 W. Michigan Street, LaGrange |
| 8:30 to 4:30 M-F |
| Phone: (260) 499-6320 |
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| June 5, 2012,
Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed, you should always
confirm this information with the proper agency prior to acting.
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