Litchfield County Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantor) Form
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Litchfield County Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantor) Form
Fill in the blank Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantor) form formatted to comply with all Connecticut recording and content requirements.
Litchfield County Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantor) Guide
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Litchfield County Completed Example of the Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantor) Document
Example of a properly completed Connecticut Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantor) document for reference.
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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
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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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Connecticut prints two covenant sets for a trustee conveying land out of a trust, and this deed carries the narrow one. It takes a single trustee as Grantor, signing in a fiduciary capacity and not individually, and the only promise traveling with the conveyance is the quitclaim covenant, which reaches the signer's own acts and stops there. Nothing in it states that the trustee is duly qualified or holds power to sell.
The covenant a trustee does not give here
Chapter 821a prints both instruments together. Section 47-36c sets out a form entitled Trustee's Deed, and Section 47-36s loads it with three covenants: that the trustee is duly qualified to act, that the trustee holds full power and authority to bargain and sell the described premises, and that the trustee and the trustee's successors will warrant and defend against claims of anyone claiming by, from or under the trustee. Public Act 03-75 added it. That instrument is prepared and recorded on its own and is not part of this package.
The quitclaim entry in the same section travels lighter. Section 47-36f gives a duly executed quitclaim the force of a deed releasing all the releasor's right, title and interest, except as the deed limits it, and without covenants of title. Section 47-36g fixes the single promise riding along: freedom from encumbrances the releasor made or suffered, plus a warranty against persons claiming by, from or under that releasor. A fiduciary releasing on those terms hands over what the trust holds and answers for nothing before it.
Capacity on the face, authority by volume and page
Section 10 puts the fiduciary posture on the record. Its printed sentences state that the Grantor signs solely as trustee of the trust named in Section 2 and not individually, and that the conveyance sits within the authority the trust instrument and the law supply. A blank beneath takes the volume and page of any separate recorded document carrying that authority, which answers a peculiarity: under Section 47-20 the word trustee following a grantee's name, absent other limiting language, leaves that grantee free to sell or mortgage as though the word were not there, unless a separate recorded instrument defines the powers. Section 45a-499zzz of the Connecticut Uniform Trust Code supplies what usually fills that blank, a certification of trust giving the trust's date, the settlor, the acting trustee, the powers, and the manner of taking title, without the dispositive terms.
How this form is configured
Eleven numbered sections take the trustee, the trust name and date, the grantee with the current mailing address Section 47-5(b) asks for, the consideration, the town and legal description, the source of title by volume and page, the encumbrances, additional provisions, the capacity statement, and the conveyance in the statutory operative words. The execution block holds one signature line for the trustee, two subscribing witness lines, and one certificate tracking the Section 1-34 form for an acknowledgment taken in a representative capacity, closing on the phrase in the capacity therein stated and for the purposes therein contained. A shore parcel distributed to two adult children, and a family trust releasing a rental it no longer manages, present the single-trustee pattern this deed recites. Cotrustees, a corporate trustee acting through an officer, and a testamentary trustee under a will each present a different execution.
Filing it in the town
Land instruments record town by town here, not by county, so the deed reaches the clerk of the town where the parcel sits. Section 47-10 leaves an unrecorded conveyance good against nobody but the grantor and the grantor's heirs. Section 47-36bb has that clerk index an instrument naming a trust under the trust name and under every trustee identified in it. On tax, no subdivision of Section 12-498(a) exempts a conveyance because a trustee signed it; subdivision (10) reaches a deed whose consideration is under two thousand dollars, where a nominal distribution ordinarily lands, and Section 12-497 holds a taxable quit claim deed off the record until Form OP-236 reaches the clerk and the tax is paid.
Three items arrive in the download. The blank deed comes as a fillable PDF. The completed example works an Old Lyme distribution through every numbered section. The guide walks the statutes behind the form, the trustee-authority provisions of the Connecticut Uniform Trust Code, the witness and notarial requirements, the ways grantees may take title together, and what the town clerk collects. 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 office below.
This Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantor) meets all recording requirements specific to Litchfield County.
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