New Haven County Quitclaim Deed (Corrective) Form
Last validated July 31, 2026 by our Forms Development TeamFormatted for recording in New Haven County, for property anywhere in the county: rural and unincorporated areas as well as Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Bethany, Branford, Cheshire, Derby, East Haven, Guilford and 21 more.
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New Haven County Quitclaim Deed (Corrective) Form
Fill in the blank Quitclaim Deed (Corrective) form formatted to comply with all Connecticut recording and content requirements.
New Haven County Quitclaim Deed (Corrective) Guide
Line by line guide explaining every blank on the Quitclaim Deed (Corrective) form.
New Haven County Completed Example of the Quitclaim Deed (Corrective) Document
Example of a properly completed Connecticut Quitclaim Deed (Corrective) document for reference.
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Where to Record Your Documents
Ansonia Town & City Clerk
Ansonia, Connecticut 06401
Hours: Mon-Wed 8:30 to 4:30; Thu 8:30 to 5:00; Fri 8:30 to 1:00
Phone: (203) 736-5980
Beacon Falls Town Clerk
Beacon Falls, Connecticut 06403
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30 to 4:30
Phone: (203) 729-8254
Bethany Town Clerk
Bethany, Connecticut 06524-3338
Hours: Mon-Fri 9:00 to 4:30; Mon eve 6:30 to 7:30
Phone: (203) 393-2100 Ext 104, 105, 106
Branford Town Clerk
Branford , Connecticut 06405
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30 to 4:30 / Recording 9:00 to 4:00
Phone: (203) 315-0678
Cheshire Town Clerk
Cheshire, Connecticut 06410
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30 to 4:00
Phone: (203) 271-6601
Derby Town/City Clerk
Derby, Connecticut 06418
Hours: Mon-Fri 9:00 to 5:00
Phone: (203) 736-1462
East Haven Town Clerk
East Haven, Connecticut 06512
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30 to 4:30
Phone: (203) 468–3201, 3202
Guilford Town Clerk
Guilford, Connecticut 06437
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30 to 4:30
Phone: (203) 453-8001
Hamden Town Clerk
Hamden, Connecticut 06518
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:45 to 4:15
Phone: (203) 287-7028
Madison Town Clerk
Madison, Connecticut 06443
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30 to 4:00
Phone: (203) 245-5672
Meriden City Clerk
Meriden, Connecticut 06450
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30 to 5:00
Phone: (203) 630-4030
Middlebury Town Clerk
Middlebury, Connecticut 06762
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:00 to 4:00
Phone: (203) 758-2557
Milford City Clerk
Milford, Connecticut 06460
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30 to 5:00 / Recording until 4:30
Phone: (203) 783-3210
Naugatuck Town Clerk
Naugatuck, Connecticut 06770
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30 to 4:00 / Recording until 3:30
Phone: (203) 720-7055
New Haven City/Town Clerk
New Haven, Connecticut 06510
Hours: Mon-Fri 9:00 to 5:00 / Recording until 4:00
Phone: (203) 946-8346
North Branford Town Clerk
North Branford , Connecticut 06471
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30 to 4:30
Phone: (203) 484-6015
North Haven Town Clerk
North Haven, Connecticut 06473
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30 to 4:30
Phone: (203) 239-5321 Ext 630
Orange Town Clerk
Orange, Connecticut 06477
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30 to 4:30
Phone: (203) 891-4717, 4728, 4729, 4730
Oxford Town Clerk
Oxford, Connecticut 06478
Hours: Mon 9:00 to 7:00; Tue-Thu 9:00 to 5:00; Fri 9:00 to 12:00 & 1:00 to 5:00
Phone: (203) 888-2543 Ext 3024, 3025, 3026
Prospect Town Clerk
Prospect, Connecticut 06712
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30 to 4:00
Phone: (203) 758-4461
Seymour Town Clerk
Seymour, Connecticut 06483
Hours: Mon-Thu 8:00 to 4:30; Fri 8:00 to 12:00
Phone: (203) 888-0519
Southbury Town Clerk
Southbury, Connecticut 06488
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30 to 4:30
Phone: (203) 262-0657
Wallingford Town Clerk
Wallingford, Connecticut 06492
Hours: Mon-Fri 9:00 to 5:00 / Recording until 4:45
Phone: (203) 294-2145
Waterbury Town Clerk
Waterbury, Connecticut 06702
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30 to 4:30
Phone: (203) 574-6806
West Haven City Clerk
West Haven, Connecticut 06516
Hours: Mon-Fri 9:00 to 5:00
Phone: (203) 937-3535
Wolcott Town Clerk
Wolcott, Connecticut 06716
Hours: Mon-Wed 8:00 to 4:30; Thu 8:00 to 5:30; Fri 8:00 to 12:00 / Recording until 30 mins to closing
Phone: (203) 879-8100
Woodbridge Town Clerk
Woodbridge, Connecticut 06525
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30 to 4:00 / Recording until 3:30
Phone: (203) 389-3422
Recording Tips for New Haven County:
- Bring your driver's license or state-issued photo ID
- Ensure all signatures are in blue or black ink
- Check that your notary's commission hasn't expired
- Documents must be on 8.5 x 11 inch white paper
- Double-check legal descriptions match your existing deed
Cities and Jurisdictions in New Haven County
Properties in any of these areas use New Haven County forms:
- Ansonia
- Beacon Falls
- Bethany
- Branford
- Cheshire
- Derby
- East Haven
- Guilford
- Hamden
- Madison
- Meriden
- Middlebury
- Milford
- Naugatuck
- New Haven
- North Branford
- North Haven
- Northford
- Orange
- Oxford
- Prospect
- Seymour
- South Britain
- Southbury
- Wallingford
- Waterbury
- West Haven
- Wolcott
- Woodbridge
Hours, fees, requirements, and more for New Haven County
How do I get my forms?
Forms are available for immediate download after payment. The New Haven 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 New Haven County?
Yes. Our form blanks are guaranteed to meet or exceed the applicable formatting requirements used for recording in New Haven 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 New Haven 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. The free Adobe Acrobat Reader is recommended, and most PDF apps also work. 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 New Haven County?
Recording fees in New Haven County vary. Contact the recorder's office at (203) 736-5980 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 New Haven County to use these forms. Documents should be recorded at the county recording office listed above.
This Quitclaim Deed (Corrective) meets all recording requirements specific to New Haven County.
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