Santa Cruz County Quitclaim Deed (Divorce) Form

Section 3 of this Arizona quitclaim deed holds a court name, a case number, and the date a decree of dissolution of marriage was entered. The deed carries out that decree: the grantor quit claims every interest the marriage created, and the grantee takes the property as sole and separate property, with the proceeding identified on the face of the instrument.

The record catches up to the decree

Arizona statute does part of the work the moment a marriage ends. A.R.S. Section 14-2804 severs the former spouses' survivorship estates, joint tenancy or survivorship community property, into a tenancy in common, and revokes revocable dispositions of property to a former spouse. The county record, though, still shows the old vesting, and the statute protects third parties who deal in good faith and for value unless a writing declaring the severance appears of record. A recorded deed carrying out the decree closes that gap: the departing party's interest lands with the party the decree awarded the property, and the title record finally says what the decree says.

Exemption code A5, the court-order entry

A deed that moves Arizona title reaches the recorder with a completed Affidavit of Property Value or an exemption notation on its face, and the divorce conveyance has a statutory entry of its own. A.R.S. Section 11-1134(A)(5) exempts a conveyance of real property executed pursuant to a court order; the Department of Revenue's code for it is A5, and Maricopa County's published explanation uses a divorce-ordered transfer as its illustration, a certified copy of the decree accompanying the deed. The form positions the notation line beneath the property description, and the completed example carries the entry A.R.S. 11-1134 A5.

One signature, and why joinder drops away

Arizona's two-spouse joinder rule for community real property, A.R.S. Section 25-214(C), governs a marriage in progress. Once the decree is entered the parties are no longer spouses as to each other; the grantor conveys an interest the decree has already divided, so the deed carries one grantor block, one grantee block, one signature line, and one acknowledgment certificate on the Section 41-265 short form. The conveyance clause quit claims all right, title, and interest, expressly reaching any community property interest and any interest formerly held as joint tenants or as survivorship community property, with no covenant or warranty of title. A decree that awards the home to one party and directs the other to execute a deed, and a settlement agreement incorporated into a decree that assigns a parcel to one party, present the pattern this deed recites; the completed example works the first through a Mesa parcel in Maricopa County, signed nineteen days after the decree. The form is not set up for spouses conveying to each other during an intact marriage, a transfer that records under the residential husband-and-wife exemption rather than the court-order entry, and it is not arranged for two spouses joining to pass community property to an outside grantee; its architecture assumes the decree has already divided what the deed now conveys, which is why the decree identification stands as its own numbered section between the parties and the consideration.

The download includes the blank deed as a fillable PDF, the completed Maricopa County example, and a section by section guide covering the decree identification, exemption notation, notarization, and recording, including the thumbprint and photo identification rules arriving September 12, 2026. The materials are informational and are not legal advice.