Alabama Quitclaim Deed

One grantor, one signature line, one acknowledgment certificate: the Alabama Quitclaim Deed (Individual Grantor) is built around a release of Alabama real property by a single person acting alone. The form carries the marital status entry Alabama expects of every individual grantor in its first section, then releases to the grantee whatever right, title, and interest the signer holds, without any covenant of title.

Configured around a single signer

The deed recites exactly one individual grantor. Section 1 takes that grantor's name, mailing address, and marital status; Section 10 carries the one signature line; and a single acknowledgment certificate closes the instrument. One record owner releasing an undivided fractional interest to a single grantee, and an unmarried owner delivering record title to settle a boundary line, present the single grantor pattern this deed recites. The form is not set up as a co owner release or an entity conveyance, and a married grantor's transfer of homestead property presents a two signature pattern under Ala. Code Section 6-10-3 that this configuration does not carry; the deed prints that homestead rule in capital letters so the condition is visible on the face of the instrument.

The marital status line most states never ask for

Ala. Code Section 35-4-73 keeps a deed out of the record unless it carries a recitation of the marital status of each individual grantor or vendor, a rule that has applied to instruments executed since July 21, 1972, and a knowingly false recitation is a misdemeanor. This form builds the entry into the grantor section rather than leaving it to be added at the counter, and the completed example shows the wording in place.

Release words, chosen against Section 35-4-271

Alabama attaches covenants to word choice. In a fee conveyance, the words grant, bargain, or sell, standing as operative words, are construed as express covenants of seisin, freedom from encumbrances done or suffered by the grantor, and quiet enjoyment, unless the instrument limits them (Ala. Code Section 35-4-271). This deed remises, releases, quitclaims, and conveys, and it states on its face that no Section 35-4-271 covenant arises, so the release stays a release: the grantee takes whatever interest the grantor holds at delivery, and nothing is promised about what that interest is.

An Alabama certificate, not a generic one

Alabama's statutory acknowledgment reads differently from the short forms most states use. Under Ala. Code Section 35-4-29, the officer certifies that the person whose name is signed to the conveyance is known to the officer and, being informed of the contents of the conveyance, executed it voluntarily on the day it bears date. The certificate printed on this form carries that substance. Acknowledgment also operates as compliance with the witness rule of Ala. Code Section 35-4-20 (Section 35-4-23), so the notarized deed goes to record with no subscribing witness line, and the notary block closes with the officer's printed name, state, and commission expiration.

At the probate office

The signed deed goes to the judge of probate of the county where the property is located. Recording is what protects the grantee against third parties: under Ala. Code Section 35-4-90, an unrecorded conveyance is inoperative and void as to purchasers for a valuable consideration, mortgagees, and judgment creditors without notice. At recording, the probate office collects the deed tax of fifty cents per five hundred dollars of value (Ala. Code Section 40-22-1) along with the sales value disclosure Alabama has collected since 2012, commonly on Department of Revenue Form RT-1, a one page state form completed separately at recording and not part of the deed itself. The form reserves the top three inches of its first page for the recording stamp and carries the preparer statement Ala. Code Sections 35-4-110 and 35-4-113 make a prerequisite to recording, so the paper arrives shaped for county intake.

The download delivers this Alabama quitclaim deed, also searched for as a quit claim or quick claim deed, as a blank fillable PDF, together with a completed example on a Madison County fact pattern and a guide that walks the form section by section, from the marital status entry through the acknowledgment certificate. The materials describe Alabama law in general terms and are not legal advice; an Alabama attorney can apply these rules to a particular title.