Santa Cruz County Warranty Deed (Joint Grantors) Form

Two grantors convey together on the Arizona Warranty Deed (Joint Grantors), and both of them stand behind the title. The form recites exactly two grantors, carries a signature block for each, and closes with two acknowledgment certificates, one completed for each signer's appearance before a notary. The operative section follows Arizona's statutory warranty language: the grantors convey the described real property and warrant the title against all persons whomsoever, the wording of A.R.S. 33-402(3).

Two Grantor Blocks, Two Signatures, Two Notary Certificates

Sections 1 and 2 each hold one grantor's full legal name, marital status, and mailing address; Section 10 carries a separate signature block for each grantor; and the certificate pages hold two Arizona short-form acknowledgments, so the two signers may appear on different dates, before different notaries, in different states. The ownership patterns that present this architecture in the record are consistent: spouses conveying community real property, two joint tenants selling to a single buyer, tenants in common passing their combined shares in one instrument, and a married couple conveying land held as community property with right of survivorship. The form recites exactly two grantors. A deed from a sole owner follows a one-signer pattern this form does not carry, three or more owners exceed its grantor blocks, and a grantor holding title as trustee brings the beneficiary disclosures of A.R.S. 33-404, which these grantor blocks do not contain.

Why Community Real Property Takes Both Signatures

Arizona presumes property acquired by either spouse during marriage to be community property under A.R.S. 25-211, and A.R.S. 25-214(C)(1) places every disposition or encumbrance of community real property under a both-spouses joinder rule, with narrow exceptions for unpatented mining claims and leases of less than one year. In Geronimo Hotel and Lodge v. Putzi, the Arizona Supreme Court treated a community realty conveyance signed by one spouse alone as voidable by the spouse who did not join, with the signing spouse still exposed on the warranty. A two-grantor deed puts the joinder on the face of the record: both spouses occupy the grantor blocks, both sign, and both certificates are completed.

One Warranty, Two Promisors

The statutory warranty runs from each signer. The deed states that the conveyance, the covenants, and the warranty of title are the obligations of each grantor, and the implied covenants of A.R.S. 33-435 attach through the word convey: that the same estate was not previously conveyed to anyone else, and that the estate is free from encumbrances at execution, a term the statute extends to taxes, assessments, and liens. The exceptions section is where the grantors narrow that exposure. Matters entered there, the customary current-year taxes, patent reservations, and recorded easements and covenants, fall outside the promise; anything not entered remains within it, enforceable against both grantors.

Recording in the County Where the Land Sits

Arizona recording mechanics reward promptness twice over. A.R.S. 33-411.01 assigns the transferor a sixty day recording duty, and the recording act at A.R.S. 33-411 and 33-412 protects the grantee against later purchasers and creditors only once the deed is on record. The county recorder collects a flat thirty dollars under A.R.S. 11-475, with the two dollar real estate transfer fee folded in. A sale for consideration also arrives with the Affidavit of Property Value, an Arizona Department of Revenue form prepared and signed separately and not included in this package; when a transfer is exempt under A.R.S. 11-1134, the exemption code goes on the face of the deed beneath the legal description, and the form provides a line there for that notation. The first page reserves Arizona's two inch top recording margin and places the requester and return-address entries in the left 3.5 inches that A.R.S. 11-480(C) allows, so the deed arrives at the counter formatted the way the recorder reads it.

The download package contains three items: the warranty deed as a fillable PDF configured for two grantors, a completed example showing a Pima County sale by a married couple from the grantor blocks through both notary certificates, and a plain language guide covering every section, the grantee vesting forms Arizona recognizes, and the recording steps. The materials describe Arizona law in general terms and are not legal advice.