Arkansas Quitclaim Deed (Individual Grantor by Attorney-in-Fact)

A deed signed under an Arkansas power of attorney reaches the circuit clerk as a pair of documents, because Section 18-12-501 sends the power of attorney into the record with the deed the agent makes under it. This quitclaim deed is configured for that filing: one individual record owner is the Grantor, an attorney-in-fact signs in that owner's place, and whatever interest the owner holds at delivery passes to the Grantee without warranty of title.

Two instruments, one trip to the counter

Arkansas Code Annotated Section 18-12-501(a) is short and unusual. A power of attorney carrying a power to convey real estate is acknowledged, certified, and recorded with the deed the agent makes under it, and subsection (b) sends it to the officers who take probate of deeds. Section 4 of the form is built for that pairing, collecting the date the principal signed, the grant of authority relied on, and a recording reference, which reads as a book and page where the power of attorney is already recorded and as a presentation with this deed where it is not. Act 356 of 2021 refreshed the section. That authority document is signed apart from this package and is not included in it.

What the authority document has to say

The word this deed needs sits in the statute. Section 28-68-204 provides that general authority over real property lets an agent sell, exchange, convey with or without covenants, quitclaim, release, encumber, and otherwise dispose of an interest in real property, and Section 28-68-201(c) carries that list into any document granting authority to do all acts the principal could do. Two limits ride alongside: an agent who is not an ancestor, spouse, or descendant may not use the authority to create an interest in the principal's property in the agent, and creating a right of survivorship takes an express grant. Section 28-68-110 ends the authority at the principal's death, at revocation, or at incapacity where the document is not durable, and a recorded revocation voids it from the moment of filing under Section 18-12-502.

A certificate Arkansas wrote for this signer

Section 16-47-107(c) prints an acknowledgment form used nowhere else: for Arkansas real estate instruments executed by attorneys in fact. The officer certifies that the person appearing is known or satisfactorily proven to be the person whose name is subscribed as attorney in fact for the principal, and acknowledged executing the instrument as the act of that principal; subsection (d) makes an instrument in that form good and sufficient. The certificate here follows it, and the blank after the words personally appeared carries the agent's name with the capacity. Two disinterested witnesses subscribe under Section 18-12-104.

One owner, one agent, words chosen to promise nothing

The form recites a single record owner with a marital status entry, a single attorney-in-fact, and a Grantee block with a vesting line. Because Section 18-12-102 turns grant, bargain and sell into covenants of title unless express words cut them off, Section 8 operates by remise, release, and forever quitclaim and states that the agent signs in a representative capacity alone, giving no personal covenant. Patterns presenting this configuration recur: an owner on military assignment whose agent releases an undivided share, an owner who left the state after signing a durable power of attorney whose agent quitclaims a remnant parcel to a farming neighbor, and an owner whose capacity declined after a buyout agreement. A deed the owner signs personally, one signed by two co-agents required to act together, and one signed for an entity sit outside these blocks.

Stamps and the identification the agent carries

Arkansas taxes consideration above one hundred dollars at three dollars and thirty cents per thousand, and Section 9 prints the Section 26-60-110 certification for the grantee or that person's agent beside the exemption sentence. The 2025 amendment to Section 14-15-403 lands squarely on this variant: the photo identification a counter or mail filing has carried since August 5, 2025 belongs to the grantor named in the deed or to the individual signing on that grantor's behalf, which here is the agent.

What the download delivers

The package holds this deed as a fillable PDF, a completed example worked through a Pope County release signed under a durable power of attorney, and a plain language guide to the blanks and recording. Searches landing here include quit claim deed by power of attorney, POA deed, and quick claim deed signed by an agent. The materials are informational and are not legal advice.