Houston County Quitclaim Deed (Two Grantors) Form

When two people share record title to Alabama real estate, clearing both interests out of the chain of title can happen in a single instrument. The Alabama Quitclaim Deed (Two Grantors) is configured for exactly two owners of record, each an individual, who together release whatever right, title, and interest they hold to one grantee, with no warranty of title attached.

One deed, two releases

The first section carries two grantor blocks, each pairing a name and mailing address with its own marital status entry, so the recitation Alabama expects of every individual grantor (Ala. Code Section 35-4-73) appears twice, once for each signer. Section 9 carries two signature lines with printed name and date lines, and two acknowledgment certificates close the instrument, one for each grantor. The operative section provides that each grantor releases only that grantor's own right, title, and interest, so a grantor holding an undivided half passes that half and nothing more. Two heirs holding undivided shares of a family parcel and releasing them to one relative, co-investors closing out a shared rental in favor of a single buyer, and a divorced pair conveying a formerly shared lot to a third person present the two-grantor pattern this deed recites. The form is not set up as a sole-owner release or an entity conveyance, and a married grantor whose transfer reaches the homestead encounters the spouse assent condition of Ala. Code Section 6-10-3, printed in capital letters on the face of the deed; the form carries signature and acknowledgment lines for the two grantors only.

Two acknowledgments on two schedules

Nothing on the form asks the grantors to appear anywhere together. Each signature is followed by its own certificate, so the first grantor may acknowledge before a notary in one county on a Monday and the second before a different officer, in a different county or state, the following week; the deed is finished when the second certificate is. Acknowledgment does double duty in Alabama, operating as compliance with the witness attestation rule for conveyances (Ala. Code Sections 35-4-20 and 35-4-23), which is why the notarized deed carries no subscribing witness lines. The included example shows the rhythm: two certificates completed three days apart before two different notaries.

A release measured share by share

The operative words are remise, release, quitclaim, and convey. Because Alabama attaches implied covenants to certain other operative words in fee conveyances (Ala. Code Section 35-4-271), the deed states expressly that no covenant arises under that section, and what each grantor passes is exactly what that grantor holds at delivery: an undivided share, a partial interest, or nothing at all, with no promise layered on top. For co-owners unwinding a shared holding, that share-by-share honesty is the instrument's point; the grantee collects both interests and takes the title questions as they stand.

One trip to the probate judge

However far apart the signings, recording happens once, in the office of the judge of probate of the county where the land lies. An unrecorded Alabama conveyance is void as to purchasers, mortgagees, and judgment creditors without notice (Ala. Code Section 35-4-90), so the grantee's protection against the outside world begins at the recording counter. The probate office collects the deed recording tax measured by the value of the interests conveyed (Ala. Code Section 40-22-1) along with the sales value information Alabama counties gather with deeds, and the paper arrives ready for intake, its preparer statement in place (Ala. Code Sections 35-4-110 and 35-4-113) and the top three inches of its first page held open for the recording stamp.

The purchase downloads as a package built around this two-grantor configuration: the deed as a blank fillable PDF, a completed example worked through a Shelby County family transfer, and a guide that covers the form from the paired marital status entries to the second acknowledgment certificate. A buyer searching for a two-owner quit claim deed or quick claim deed finds the same instrument here under its formal name. The materials describe Alabama law generally and are not legal advice; an Alabama attorney can weigh how a release like this one lands on a particular title.