Santa Cruz County Quitclaim Deed (Individual Grantor by Attorney-in-Fact) Form

One person's interest leaves the record under another person's signature on this Arizona quitclaim deed. The grantor is the principal named in the granting clause; the hand at the bottom belongs to an agent, an attorney-in-fact signing under a written power of attorney. Arizona builds room for that arrangement into its basic conveyance rule: A.R.S. Section 33-401(A) lets an estate in real property pass by an instrument subscribed and delivered by the disposing party or by that party's agent thereunto authorized by writing.

Authority the Record Can Trace

The deed keeps the agency on its face. Section 2 identifies the agent, states the date of the power of attorney, and carries an optional recording reference for a power placed of record. The operative section then recites that the agent executes solely in the representative capacity, under a written power within the meaning of A.R.S. Sections 33-401(A) and 14-5501, with no actual knowledge of revocation, termination, or the principal's death. Behind those recitals, Section 14-5504 protects acts taken in good faith without knowledge of the principal's death, and Section 14-5505 makes an agent's affidavit of nonrevocation recordable alongside a recordable instrument; that affidavit is a separate instrument, prepared and recorded separately. Arizona never adopted the Uniform Power of Attorney Act, so the agent's authority, including any authority to convey for no consideration, lives in the wording of the power itself.

A Power on Record Beside the Deed

The optional reference line in Section 2 anticipates a recorded power of attorney. Where a power directs its agent to transfer real property, Arizona practice places the power itself of record with the county recorder, and Section 2 then carries its recording reference in whichever style the county's index uses, docket and page or instrument number, an equivalence A.R.S. Section 11-461(F) states. Deed and power then read together in one public record, and a title examiner tracing the agent's signature finds the writing that authorized it one index entry away.

A Certificate Written for a Representative Signer

The notary block departs from the individual short form. Following A.R.S. Section 41-265, the certificate states that the record was acknowledged before the notary by the agent as agent (attorney-in-fact) of the named principal. The conveyance itself is the familiar statutory quitclaim: the grantor quit claims all right, title, and interest, with no words of warranty following. A notarization on or after September 12, 2026 also collects the signer's thumbprint in the notary journal, a rule Arizona's 2026 anti-fraud act applies to deeds and to powers of attorney alike.

The Configuration This Deed Carries

One grantor block names the principal; one agent block identifies the power of attorney; grantee and vesting, consideration, legal description, exemption notation, and source of title follow in numbered sections; a single signature line and one representative-capacity certificate close the execution. An out-of-state owner whose Arizona agent releases an inherited fractional interest to the co-heir occupying the parcel, and a principal in long-term care whose agent clears a stale interest of record, present the pattern this deed recites. The form recites exactly one principal and one agent, and it is not set up for a principal signing personally, for two principals conveying together, or for spouses disposing of community real property, a two-signature act under A.R.S. Section 25-214(C). The completed example works the first pattern through a Mesa parcel in Maricopa County, entered for no monetary consideration and noting exemption code A4 on the line the form positions under the property description.

The package pairs the fillable blank deed with a completed Maricopa County example and a plain language guide covering each numbered section, the Section 14-5501 power of attorney formalities, and recording. The materials are informational and are not legal advice.