Lauderdale County Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantor) Form

The signature line on this deed carries an office. The Alabama Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantor) is drafted for a grantor who signs as trustee of a named trust and not individually, releasing to one grantee whatever interest the trust holds in Alabama real property, without warranty. That capacity runs through the instrument: Section 2 names the trust and its date, the operative words move the trust's interest rather than the signer's own, and the acknowledgment is worded for a representative signer.

The certificate Alabama prints for a representative signer

Ala. Code Section 35-4-29 supplies more than one substantial form of acknowledgment. Beside the familiar individual wording sits a representative capacity form: the officer certifies that the person whose name as the stated capacity is signed to the conveyance, known to the officer and informed of its contents, executed it in that capacity on the day it bears date. The certificate here carries that substance, and its wide blank takes the signer's name with the office and the trust. Because an acknowledgment satisfies the attestation requirement of Ala. Code Section 35-4-20 (Section 35-4-23), no subscribing witness signs beneath it.

Where the trustee's authority actually lives

The deed identifies the trust and stops; its terms stay with the trustee. Under Ala. Code Section 19-3B-815 a trustee exercises the powers the terms of the trust confer and, except as those terms limit them, the powers the Alabama Uniform Trust Code confers; Section 19-3B-816(a) lists the power to sell property at public or private sale and to sign and deliver instruments useful to exercising it. Where a buyer or title examiner wants the facts on paper, Ala. Code Section 19-3B-1013 describes the certification of trust a trustee may furnish instead of the trust instrument, prepared separately and no part of this package.

A marital status line on a fiduciary deed

Ala. Code Section 35-4-73 keeps a deed out of the record unless it recites the marital status of an individual grantor or vendor, for instruments executed after July 21, 1972. The signer here is an individual whatever office that person holds, so the entry sits in Section 1. Title stands in the trustee's name for the trust rather than a married person's, so the form carries no spouse signature block; the guide sets out the homestead rule of Ala. Code Section 6-10-3 and the question it leaves open where a residence sits in a settlor's revocable trust.

Configured for one trustee and one grantee

Section 1 takes the trustee's name, address, and marital status; Section 2 the trust name and the date of the trust instrument; Section 9 one signature line captioned for a grantor signing as trustee, and one certificate closes the deed. A successor trustee deeding a parcel to the beneficiary a trust names at the settlor's death, a trustee winding up a terminating trust, and a trustee releasing whatever interest a trust may still hold where its name clouds a chain of title present the pattern this deed recites. The form is not set up for co-trustees who both sign, for a grantor conveying in a personal capacity, or for a grantee who takes as trustee.

Release words, and one trip to the probate office

Alabama reads covenants into operative words: under Ala. Code Section 35-4-271, a fee conveyance using grant, bargain, or sell carries express covenants of an indefeasible fee, of freedom from encumbrances the grantor caused or permitted, and of quiet enjoyment, unless the deed limits them. This instrument omits those words, remises, releases, quitclaims, and conveys, and states that no Section 35-4-271 covenant arises. It goes to the judge of probate where the land lies, and an unrecorded conveyance is void against purchasers, mortgagees, and judgment creditors without notice (Ala. Code Section 35-4-90). That office collects the deed tax measured by the value conveyed (Ala. Code Section 40-22-1) with Alabama's sales value information, commonly on Department of Revenue Form RT-1.

Page one leaves its top three inches open for the stamp, and the preparer endorsement Ala. Code Sections 35-4-110 and 35-4-113 make a recording prerequisite is printed in the instrument. Buyers reach this Alabama quitclaim deed as a trustee's deed, a quit claim deed, or a quick claim deed. The download delivers the blank fillable PDF, a completed example set in Tuscaloosa County, and a guide covering every entry, the capacity language, and the certificate. These pages describe Alabama law generally and are not legal advice; an Alabama attorney can read them against a particular trust and title.