Santa Cruz County Warranty Deed (Individual Grantor) Form

The Arizona Warranty Deed (Individual Grantor) is the single-signer configuration of Arizona's statutory warranty deed: one grantor block, one signature line, and one acknowledgment certificate carrying the full A.R.S. 33-402 warranty of title. The first entry on the form does unusual work for a one-party document, because in a community property state the grantor's marital status recital states the capacity in which one person signs.

One Grantor, One Signature, One Certificate

The form recites exactly one grantor. Section 1 carries the grantor's full legal name, marital status, and mailing address; Section 9 carries a single signature line; and the notary block holds one Arizona short-form certificate under A.R.S. 41-265, completed for one appearance. Two ownership patterns present that architecture in the record: an unmarried owner conveying property titled in that owner's sole name, and a married owner conveying sole and separate property under A.R.S. 25-213, the category that covers property owned before the marriage or acquired by gift, devise, or descent. Under A.R.S. 25-214(A), a spouse manages and conveys that spouse's own separate property alone, so the record shows one signature and one certificate. The form is not set up as a conveyance of community real property: A.R.S. 25-214(C)(1) places that transaction under a both-spouses joinder rule, and a deed to community realty executed by one spouse alone is voidable by the spouse who did not join. In a community-property conveyance, both spouses sign and their signatures are acknowledged, a two-signer pattern this deed does not carry.

The Full Statutory Warranty, Promised by One Person

The operative section conveys the property and warrants the title against all persons whomsoever, the warranty wording of A.R.S. 33-402(3), with the implied covenants of A.R.S. 33-435 attaching through the word convey. That promise is personal to the single signer, which is why the exceptions section matters on this configuration: matters listed there, current-year taxes, patent reservations, recorded restrictions and easements, sit outside the warranty, while everything left unlisted stays inside it, enforceable against the one grantor whose name is on the deed.

A Marital Status Recital That Earns Its Line

Arizona presumes property acquired by either spouse during marriage to be community property under A.R.S. 25-211, so the capacity language following the grantor's name, in the style an unmarried man, or a married woman conveying her sole and separate property, carries real weight for the recorder's index, the title examiner, and every later reader. The marital-status recital states the grantor's intended capacity. The title record and surrounding facts must support separate-property treatment when only one married owner signs. The grantee side works differently: Section 2 receives the grantee's name, address, and a vesting designation, and the guide describes each form of co-ownership Arizona recognizes, from tenancy in common through community property with right of survivorship, with the statutory words that create it and the default that applies when a deed to two or more grantees names none. A grantee taking title as trustee brings the beneficiary disclosure rule of A.R.S. 33-404 to the receiving side of a deed; this form's grantee section does not carry those trust disclosures.

Recording and the Affidavit of Property Value

The deed records with the county recorder of the county where the property sits, at the statewide thirty dollar fee of A.R.S. 11-475, an amount that already includes the two dollar real estate transfer fee. A deed evidencing a transfer of title reaches the recorder with a completed Affidavit of Property Value, Department of Revenue Form 82162, unless the transaction is exempt under A.R.S. 11-1134 and the deed carries the exemption code on its face; this form prints a notation line beneath the legal description for exactly that entry. Arizona also assigns the recording duty itself: under A.R.S. 33-411.01 the transferor records the document within sixty days of the transfer, with indemnification of the transferee as the statutory alternative.

The download package contains the fillable warranty deed form configured for one grantor, a completed example showing a Maricopa County sale from grantor block through notary certificate, and a plain language guide that walks through every section, the grantee vesting options, and the recording steps. The materials describe Arizona law in general terms and are not legal advice.