Fairfield County Quitclaim Deed (Corrective) Form
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Fairfield County Quitclaim Deed (Corrective) Form
Fill in the blank Quitclaim Deed (Corrective) form formatted to comply with all Connecticut recording and content requirements.
Fairfield County Quitclaim Deed (Corrective) Guide
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Fairfield County Completed Example of the Quitclaim Deed (Corrective) Document
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Where to Record Your Documents
Bethel Town Clerk
Bethel, Connecticut 06801
Hours: 8:30 to 4:30 Mon-Fri
Phone: (203) 794-8505 or 8506
Bridgeport Town Clerk
Bridgeport, Connecticut 06604
Hours: 9:00am to 4:00 pm Mon-Thu; Fri until noon
Phone: (203) 576-7208
Brookfield Town Clerk
Brookfield, Connecticut 06804
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:00am to 4:00pm. Thu until 6:00pm
Phone: (203) 775-7313
Danbury Town Clerk
Danbury, Connecticut 06810
Hours: Mon - Wed 7:30am - 6:00pm; Thu 7:30am - 6:30pm
Phone: 203-797-4531
Darien Town Clerk
Darien, Connecticut 06820
Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30am to 4:30pm
Phone: (203) 656-7307
Easton Town Clerk
Easton, Connecticut 06612
Hours: Monday through Friday 8:30 to 1:00 & 2:00 to 4:30 / Recording until 4:00
Phone: (203) 268-6291 x133
Fairfield Town Clerk
Fairfield, Connecticut 06824
Hours: 8:30 to 4:30 M-F
Phone: (203) 256-3090
Greenwich Town Clerk
Greenwich, Connecticut 06830
Hours: 8:00 to 4:00 M-F
Phone: (203) 622-7897
Monroe Town Clerk
Monroe, Connecticut 06468
Hours: Mon-Thu 8:00 to 4:00; Fri until 1:00
Phone: (203) 452-2811
New Canaan Town Clerk
New Canaan , Connecticut 06840
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. M-F
Phone: (203) 594-3070
New Fairfield Town Clerk
New Fairfield, Connecticut 06812
Hours: 8:30am to 5:00pm; Friday until 12:00pm
Phone: (203) 312-5616
Newtown Town Clerk
Newtown, Connecticut 06470
Hours: Monday - Friday 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM
Phone: (203) 270-4210
City of Norwalk Town Clerk
Norwalk, Connecticut 06851
Hours: 8:30 to 4:30 M-F / Recording until 4:15
Phone: (203) 854-7747
City of Shelton City/Town Clerk
Shelton, Connecticut 06484
Hours: Monday - Friday 8 AM - 5:30 PM
Phone: (203) 924-1555 x1503
Sherman Town Clerk
Sherman, Connecticut 06784
Hours: Tue to Fri 9:00-12:00 & 1:00-4:00; Sat 9:00-12:00
Phone: (860) 354-5281
City of Stamford Town Clerk
Stamford, Connecticut 06901
Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Phone: (203) 977-4054
Stratford Town Clerk
Stratford, Connecticut 06615
Hours: Monday through Friday 8:00am to 4:00pm
Phone: (203) 385-4020
Redding Town Clerk
Redding, Connecticut 06875
Hours: Mon-Wed 8:30 to 5:30; Thu 8:30 to 6:00; Fri closed
Phone: (203) 938-2377
Ridgefield Town Clerk
Ridgefield, Connecticut 06877
Hours: 8:30 to 4:30 Monday-Friday
Phone: (203) 431-2783
Trumbull Town Clerk
Trumbull, Connecticut 06611
Hours: Mon-Fri 9:00 to 5:00 / Recording until 4:30
Phone: (203) 452-5035
Weston Town Clerk
Weston, Connecticut 06883
Hours: 9:00am to 4:30 pm Monday - Friday
Phone: (203) 222-2616
Westport Town Clerk
Westport , Connecticut 06880
Hours: 8:30 to 4:30 Monday through Friday
Phone: (203) 341-1110
Wilton Town Clerk
Wilton, Connecticut 06897
Hours: 8:30 to 4:30 M-F
Phone: (203) 563-0106
Recording Tips for Fairfield County:
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- Avoid the last business day of the month when possible
Cities and Jurisdictions in Fairfield County
Properties in any of these areas use Fairfield County forms:
- Bethel
- Botsford
- Bridgeport
- Brookfield
- Cos Cob
- Danbury
- Darien
- Easton
- Fairfield
- Georgetown
- Greens Farms
- Greenwich
- Hawleyville
- Monroe
- New Canaan
- New Fairfield
- Newtown
- Norwalk
- Old Greenwich
- Redding
- Redding Center
- Redding Ridge
- Ridgefield
- Riverside
- Sandy Hook
- Shelton
- Sherman
- Southport
- Stamford
- Stevenson
- Stratford
- Trumbull
- Weston
- Westport
- Wilton
Hours, fees, requirements, and more for Fairfield County
How do I get my forms?
Forms are available for immediate download after payment. The Fairfield County forms will be in your account ready to download to your computer. An account is created for you during checkout if you don't have one. Forms are NOT emailed.
Are these forms guaranteed to be recordable in Fairfield County?
Yes. Our form blanks are guaranteed to meet or exceed the applicable formatting requirements used for recording in Fairfield County, including margin requirements, font requirements, and other layout standards. This guarantee applies to formatting, not to the legal sufficiency of information entered by the user or the suitability of a form for a particular transaction.
Can I reuse these forms?
Yes. You can reuse the forms for your personal use. For example, if you have multiple properties in Fairfield County you only need to order once.
What do I need to use these forms?
The forms are PDFs that you fill out on your computer. You'll need Adobe Reader (free software that most computers already have). You do NOT enter your property information online - you download the blank forms and complete them privately on your own computer.
Are there any recurring fees?
No. This is a one-time purchase. Nothing to cancel, no memberships, no recurring fees.
How much does it cost to record in Fairfield County?
Recording fees in Fairfield County vary. Contact the recorder's office at (203) 794-8505 or 8506 for current fees.
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A deed already sitting in a Connecticut town's land records cannot be pulled back and retyped. This corrective quitclaim deed is what goes on the record behind it: one individual Grantor, the same person who conveyed under the earlier deed, signs a second deed that identifies the first by volume and page and states the correction. Buyers search it as a Connecticut correction deed, a corrective deed, or a scrivener's error fix.
What Connecticut repairs without a second deed
Much recorded deed trouble in Connecticut is answered by statute, and that is where a correction question starts. Section 47-36aa of the General Statutes, revised by Public Act 25-136 effective July 1, 2025, runs in two registers. Subsection (a) takes conveyancing defects, a defective acknowledgment or none at all, attestation by one witness or by no witnesses, and makes the instrument as valid as if it had been executed without the defect, unless an action challenging its validity is commenced and a lis pendens recorded within two years of recording. Subsection (b) treats a second list as insubstantial, among them an omitted execution date, a flawed map reference, and a missing grantee mailing address. What sits outside those lists, and what a party wants legible on the record now rather than after a two year wait, is this deed's ground.
One Grantor, two boxes, and a stated limit
Section 8 is the working center of the form. It holds two boxes, one for the text as the Prior Deed reads and one for the corrected text, set side by side so a later title examiner sees the change without collating two instruments. Section 7 identifies that earlier instrument by title, parties, date, town, volume, page, and recording date. Section 11 puts the limit into the operative text: the deed conveys no interest beyond the interest the Prior Deed conveyed, it neither enlarges nor limits the estate except as the correction provides, and the Prior Deed stays of record. The conveyance runs on the short quitclaim form of Section 47-36c, carrying the Section 47-36f release and the narrow Section 47-36g covenant that reaches encumbrances the Grantor made or suffered.
Execution is a single sitting: one Grantor signature line, the two subscribing witness lines Section 47-5(a)(4) calls for, and one certificate tracking the Section 1-62 short form for an individual. A misspelled grantee name, and a subdivision map reference with transposed digits, present the pattern this deed recites. Two people who both conveyed under the earlier deed produce two executions, an entity or fiduciary grantor states an authority this form does not carry, and a change that moves land, adds a party, or alters the estate is a fresh conveyance. A Section 47-12a affidavit of facts affecting title states facts rather than rewriting a deed; it is recorded on its own and is not part of this package.
An exemption Connecticut deleted in 1971
Anyone arriving from another state expects a correction deed to be exempt from transfer tax by name. Connecticut is not that state. Former subdivisions (4) and (5) of Section 12-498(a), which had exempted deeds that confirm, correct, modify or supplement a previously recorded deed, were deleted by the 1971 act, and the section's history note records that deletion. Nothing in the current list restores the category, so this instrument reaches an exemption through a subdivision the list does contain, ordinarily subdivision (10), which reaches a deed whose consideration is under two thousand dollars. Classified farm, forest, open space, and maritime heritage land runs the opposite way: Section 12-504c(a)(4) still excepts by name a deed that corrects, modifies, supplements or confirms a deed previously recorded.
Recorded in the town, behind the deed it corrects
Land records here belong to the towns, so this deed reaches the clerk who holds the Prior Deed. Section 47-10 conditions a conveyance's force beyond the grantor and the grantor's heirs on recording it there. Form OP-236 travels with it, and Section 12-497 makes the filed return and any tax due a condition of recording a taxable deed. The clerk's charge is seventy dollars for the first page under the schedule effective July 1, 2025, five dollars for each page after it.
The package includes this corrective deed as a blank fillable PDF, a filled-in Farmington example carried through all thirteen sections, and a plain language guide working through the validating act, the correction and limitation provisions, the notarial steps, and the tax and recording mechanics. The materials are informational and are not legal advice.
Important: Your property must be located in Fairfield County to use these forms. Documents should be recorded at the office below.
This Quitclaim Deed (Corrective) meets all recording requirements specific to Fairfield County.
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