Litchfield County Quitclaim Deed (Married Grantor with Non-Owner Spouse Joinder) Form
Last validated July 27, 2026 by our Forms Development TeamFormatted for recording in Litchfield County, for property anywhere in the county: rural and unincorporated areas as well as Bantam, Barkhamsted, Bethlehem, Bridgewater, Canaan, Colebrook, Cornwall, Cornwall Bridge and 35 more.
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Litchfield County Quitclaim Deed (Married Grantor with Non-Owner Spouse Joinder) Form
Fill in the blank Quitclaim Deed (Married Grantor with Non-Owner Spouse Joinder) form formatted to comply with all Connecticut recording and content requirements.
Litchfield County Quitclaim Deed (Married Grantor with Non-Owner Spouse Joinder) Guide
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Example of a properly completed Connecticut Quitclaim Deed (Married Grantor with Non-Owner Spouse Joinder) document for reference.
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Where to Record Your Documents
Barkhamsted Town Clerk
Barkhamsted, Connecticut 06063-3340
Hours: Mon, Tue, Thu 9:00 to 4:00; Wed 9:00 to 5:00; Fri 9:00 to 12:00
Phone: (860) 379-8665
Bethlehem Town Clerk
Bethlehem, Connecticut 06751
Hours: Mon closed; Tue-Fri 9:00 to 12:00; Tue 5:00 to 7:00; 1st & 3rd Sat 9:00 to 12:00 (exc July & Aug)
Phone: (203) 266-7510 Ext 207
Bridgewater Town Clerk
Bridgewater, Connecticut 06752
Hours: Mon, Wed-Fri 8:00 to 12:30; Tue 8:00 to 3:30
Phone: (860) 354-5102
Canaan Town Clerk
Falls Village, Connecticut 06031-0047
Hours: Mon-Thu 9:00 to 3:00
Phone: (860) 824-0707 Ext 10
Colebrook Town Clerk
Colebrook, Connecticut 06021
Hours: Mon-Thu 9:00 to 12:00 & 1:00 to 4:30; Fri 9:00 to 12:00
Phone: (860) 379-3359 Ext 213
Cornwall Town Clerk
Cornwall, Connecticut 06753
Hours: Mon-Thu 9:00 to 12:00 & 1:00 to 4:00
Phone: (860) 672-2709
Goshen Town Clerk
Goshen, Connecticut 06756
Hours: Mon-Thu 9:00 to 12:00 & 1:00 to 4:00; Fri 9:00 to 1:00 and by appt
Phone: (860) 491-3647
Harwinton Town Clerk
Harwinton, Connecticut 06791
Hours: Mon, Tue, Thu 8:30 to 4:00; Wed 8:30 to 6:00; Fri 8:30 to 12:30
Phone: (860) 485-9613
Kent Town Clerk
Kent, Connecticut 06757
Hours: Mon-Thu 9:00 to 4:00; Fri 9:00 to 12:00
Phone: (860) 927-3433
Litchfield Town Clerk
Litchfield, Connecticut 06759
Hours: Mon-Fri 9:00 to 4:30
Phone: (860) 567-7561
Morris Town Clerk
Morris, Connecticut 06763
Hours: Mon-Wed 8:30 to 4:00; Thu 8:30 to 6:00; Fri & 1st Sat 8:30 to 12:00
Phone: (860) 567-7433
New Hartford Town Clerk
New Hartford, Connecticut 06057
Hours: Call for hours
Phone: (860) 379-5037
New Milford Town Clerk
New Milford, Connecticut 06776
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:00 to 4:00
Phone: (860) 355-6020
Norfolk Town Clerk
Norfolk, Connecticut 06058
Hours: Mon-Thu 8:30 to 12:00 & 1:00 to 4:00; Fri 8:30 to 12:00
Phone: (860) 542-5679
North Canaan Town Clerk
North Canaan, Connecticut 06018
Hours: Mon-Fri 9:30 to 12:00 & 1:00 to 4:00
Phone: (860) 824-7313 Ext 106
Plymouth Town Clerk
Terryville, Connecticut 06786
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30 to 4:30
Phone: (860) 585-4039
Roxbury Town Clerk
Roxbury, Connecticut 06783
Hours: Tue,Thu 9:00 to 12:00 & 1:00 to 4:00; Wed, Fri 9:00 to 12:00
Phone: (860) 354-3328
Salisbury Town Clerk
Salisbury, Connecticut 06068
Hours: Mon-Fri 9:00 to 3:30
Phone: (860) 435-5182
Sharon Town Clerk
Sharon, Connecticut 06069
Hours: Mon-Thu 8:30 to 12:00 & 1:00 to 4:00; Fri 8:30 to 12:00
Phone: (860) 364-5224
Thomaston Town Clerk
Thomaston, Connecticut 06787
Hours: Mon, Tue, Wed 8:00 to 4:00; Thu 8:30 to 6:00; Fri 8:30 to 12:00
Phone: (860) 283-4141
Torrington City Clerk
Torrington, Connecticut 06790
Hours: Mon-Wed 8:30-4:00; Thu 8:30-6:30; Fri 8:30-12:30
Phone: (860) 489-2236
Warren Town Clerk/Registrar
Warren , Connecticut 06754
Hours: Mon, Thu 9:00 to 1:00; Tue, Wed 9:00 to 4:00; Fri closed
Phone: (860) 868-7881 Ext 101
Washington Town Clerk
Washington Depot, Connecticut 06794
Hours: Mon-Fri 9:00 to 12:00 & 1:00 to 4:45
Phone: (860) 868-2786
Watertown Town Clerk
Watertown, Connecticut 06795
Hours: Mon-Fri 9:00 to 5:00
Phone: (860) 945-5230
Winchester Town Clerk
Winsted, Connecticut 06098-1697
Hours: Mon-Wed 8:00 to 4:00; Thu 8:00 to 7:00; Fri 8:00 to 12:00
Phone: (860) 738-6963
Woodbury Town Clerk
Woodbury, Connecticut 06798
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:00 to 4:00
Phone: (203) 263-2144
Recording Tips for Litchfield County:
- Bring your driver's license or state-issued photo ID
- Ensure all signatures are in blue or black ink
- Ask about their eRecording option for future transactions
- Avoid the last business day of the month when possible
- Both spouses typically need to sign if property is jointly owned
Cities and Jurisdictions in Litchfield County
Properties in any of these areas use Litchfield County forms:
- Bantam
- Barkhamsted
- Bethlehem
- Bridgewater
- Canaan
- Colebrook
- Cornwall
- Cornwall Bridge
- East Canaan
- Falls Village
- Gaylordsville
- Goshen
- Harwinton
- Kent
- Lakeside
- Lakeville
- Litchfield
- Morris
- New Hartford
- New Milford
- New Preston Marble Dale
- Norfolk
- Northfield
- Oakville
- Pequabuck
- Pine Meadow
- Plymouth
- Riverton
- Roxbury
- Salisbury
- Sharon
- South Kent
- Taconic
- Terryville
- Thomaston
- Torrington
- Washington
- Washington Depot
- Watertown
- West Cornwall
- Winchester Center
- Winsted
- Woodbury
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Can I reuse these forms?
Yes. You can reuse the forms for your personal use. For example, if you have multiple properties in Litchfield County you only need to order once.
What do I need to use these forms?
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Are there any recurring fees?
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How much does it cost to record in Litchfield County?
Recording fees in Litchfield County vary. Contact the recorder's office at (860) 379-8665 for current fees.
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Record title in one married person's name, and a spouse who owns nothing of record but whose signature the closing wants anyway: that is the pattern this Connecticut quitclaim deed is arranged around. The two signers do different legal work, and the deed says so out loud. The record owner conveys the property. The spouse releases whatever claim the spouse may have in it, and nothing else.
One deed, one conveyance, one release
Section 47-36c of the General Statutes supplies the short quitclaim form, and this deed uses its operative words twice over. In the first operative sentence the Grantor, for consideration paid, grants the described property to the Grantee with QUITCLAIM COVENANTS. In the second the Joining Spouse, for consideration paid, grants to the same Grantee, with the same covenants, all right, title, interest, and claim, if any, in that property. Two sentences, two acts, one instrument.
A release by a person who may hold nothing sounds like an empty gesture until Section 47-36f is read: a duly executed quitclaim carries the force and effect of a deed releasing all of the releasor's right, title, and interest, whatever that turns out to be. It disposes of an interest, an arguable interest, or none at all with equal finality. Section 47-36g then caps what the signer promises, reaching encumbrances that signer made or suffered, so a joining spouse takes on nothing about the older chain of title.
Connecticut requires no spousal signature, which is the point
Nothing in Connecticut law makes a non-owner spouse sign a lifetime deed. Dower and curtesy went out for marriages contracted after 1877, the state runs no community property regime for ordinary lifetime acquisitions, Section 47-14a(4) turns tenancy by the entirety wording into an ordinary statutory joint tenancy, and the homestead protection in Section 52-352b is an exemption from judgment enforcement rather than an interest released by signature. Record title and the execution rules of Section 47-5 are what govern.
So the joinder here is not statutory consent. It is a recorded answer to a question a title examiner would otherwise leave open, and it stops there. The surviving spouse's statutory share under Section 45a-436 is measured against property passing under a will, and subsection (f) points to a written contract made before or after marriage as the way that share gets displaced, with the Connecticut Premarital Agreement Act supplying the framework at Sections 46b-36a through 46b-36j. Releasing interests in one parcel is a different document doing a different job, and the guide draws that line carefully.
How this form is configured
Section 1 names the record owner as Grantor. Section 2 names the spouse and labels that party as not a record owner. Section 9 recites the marriage and the single purpose of the joinder in the operative text, so the arrangement is visible on the face of the deed rather than inferred from two similar surnames. Section 11 carries a signature block for each signer, the two subscribing witness blocks Section 47-5(a)(4) calls for, and a certificate for each signer, leaving room for the owner and the spouse to acknowledge on different dates or before different officers. A house acquired by one spouse before the marriage and sold years later, and a rental standing in one name that moves out of it, present the configuration this deed recites. Two people who both hold record title present a different signing pattern, and an entity or fiduciary grantor recites authority in place of the marital recital used here.
What the town clerk sees
The heading carries the Statutory Form entitlement that Section 7-34a ties to statutory-form fee treatment, printed-name blanks sit under every signature because that same section adds a dollar for a signature without one, and a blank for the grantee's current mailing address answers Section 47-5(b). The return addressee sits at the top of the first recorded page under Section 7-24(f). Recording happens in the town where the land lies, since Section 47-10 is what gives a conveyance effect beyond the grantor, and a sale for two thousand dollars or more reaches the clerk with Form OP-236 and the conveyance tax that Section 12-497 makes a condition of recording.
Included in the download: the deed as a fillable PDF, a filled-in example built on a Simsbury fact pattern, and a guide working through all eleven sections, the notarial requirements, the marital-rights statutes behind the joinder, and the recording and tax steps. The materials are informational and are not legal advice.
Important: Your property must be located in Litchfield County to use these forms. Documents should be recorded at the county recording office listed above.
This Quitclaim Deed (Married Grantor with Non-Owner Spouse Joinder) meets all recording requirements specific to Litchfield County.
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