Fairfield County Quitclaim Deed (Reserving Life Estate) Form
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Fairfield County Quitclaim Deed (Reserving Life Estate) Form
Fill in the blank Quitclaim Deed (Reserving Life Estate) form formatted to comply with all Connecticut recording and content requirements.
Fairfield County Quitclaim Deed (Reserving Life Estate) Guide
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Fairfield County Completed Example of the Quitclaim Deed (Reserving Life Estate) Document
Example of a properly completed Connecticut Quitclaim Deed (Reserving Life Estate) document for reference.
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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
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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
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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?
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What do I need to use these forms?
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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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Hold something back in a Connecticut deed and the words describing it decide how much stays behind. Section 47-36k of the General Statutes provides that a conveyance or reservation of real property reserves an estate in fee simple unless otherwise expressly limited in the deed or reservation, so a reservation that never states its own term reserves everything. This deed is built on that sentence: one individual owner conveys a parcel of Connecticut land and reserves a life estate in printed words carrying a stated term.
The words that keep a reservation from swallowing the grant
Section 47-36b provides that a conveyance under the deed forms chapter passes the grantor's whole interest absolutely, unless otherwise expressly limited in estate, condition, use or trust, and where so limited, conveys the property for the estate declared. Section 47-36f leaves the quitclaim the same room, reaching all the releasor's right, title and interest except as otherwise limited therein.
Section 9 of this form states that limit instead of assuming it: the reservation runs for the term of the grantor's natural life, the estate conveyed is the remainder interest, and the remainder becomes a present possessory estate when the life estate ends, and Section 11 carries it again inside the operative sentence.
What a life use deed moves now and what it keeps
Buyers search this arrangement as a life estate deed or a life use deed. The remainder interest passes to the grantee once the deed is delivered and recorded, while possession and use stay with the grantor for life. Nothing further is signed at the end: the Connecticut Office of Legislative Research, in report 2013-R-0312, states that when the life tenant dies full ownership passes to the remainderman without probate, and that the life tenant bears ownership costs during the life tenancy.
The retained estate carries duties. Section 52-563 makes the holder of a life estate created by the act of the parties liable to the party injured for waste beyond what a life tenant created by operation of law may commit, unless the instrument creating the interest expressly authorized the acts complained of. That exception is why Section 10 accepts additional provisions, where repair, insurance, and tax arrangements between the two sides appear.
A release, and one narrow promise
The conveyance rides on the short form of Section 47-36c, and the heading carries the Statutory Form entitlement. Section 47-36g supplies the only promise traveling with it: the releasor, and anyone claiming under the releasor, will not later claim any right or title to the premises, except as set forth in the deed. Title covenants are absent under Section 47-36f, so a recorded mortgage or easement continues untouched.
How this form is configured
Twelve numbered sections take the grantor, the grantee with a blank for the manner of holding title where two or more take, the grantee mailing address Section 47-5(b) calls for, the consideration, the town, the legal description, the source of title, the encumbrances, the reservation, and the conveyance in the statutory words. Execution runs to one grantor signature line, two subscribing witness lines, and one certificate tracking the individual short form of Section 1-34. An owner deeding a longtime home to two adult children while keeping the right to live there for life, and an owner conveying a two family house to a nephew while holding a life use, present the pattern this deed recites. Two record owners produce two executions, a reservation to someone other than the grantor states a different limitation, and an entity or fiduciary grantor recites an authority this form does not carry.
What the town clerk collects
Connecticut keeps land records in the towns, so the deed reaches the clerk of the town where the parcel sits; under Section 47-10 it holds nothing against a third party until it is recorded there. The conveyance tax is measured by consideration, not by the value of the interest conveyed, so Section 12-498(a)(10), reaching a deed whose consideration is under two thousand dollars, is where a nominal family transfer lands. Form OP-236 reaches the clerk either way, and Section 12-497 holds a taxable deed off the record until that return is filed and the tax is paid.
The download holds three items: the deed as a blank fillable PDF, a completed example worked through all twelve sections on a Guilford fact pattern, and a plain-language guide covering the statutes behind each section, the reservation and waste provisions, and the recording steps. 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 (Reserving Life Estate) meets all recording requirements specific to Fairfield County.
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