Delaware Quitclaim Deed (Two Grantors)

Two record owners can pass their combined interests in Delaware real estate through one quitclaim deed, and this edition of the form is built for exactly that pattern: two individual grantors, two signature lines, and a separate acknowledgment certificate for each signer. Whatever interest each grantor holds moves as it stands, without warranty, so the instrument closes out both ownership positions in a single recorded document.

Two Signatures, Two Certificates

The form pairs each grantor's signature line with its own notary certificate, so the two owners are able to acknowledge on different dates, before different officers, or in different states, and the finished deed still arrives at the recorder complete. A deed reaches the record in Delaware once acknowledged before an authorized officer, with the acknowledgment or proof certified (25 Del. C. § 151), and an acknowledgment may be taken in any Delaware county, wherever the land lies (25 Del. C. § 125). A lifetime deed here calls for no subscribing witnesses, so two acknowledged signatures complete the execution.

Title Held in Two Names

The two-grantor deed tracks Delaware's co-ownership estates. A deed that placed title in two spouses is presumed to vest a tenancy by the entirety, in which each spouse holds the whole estate, so a conveyance of entireties real estate carries both spouses' signatures; married owners passing an entireties parcel out of the marriage present the clearest two-grantor pattern in the record. Joint tenants with right of survivorship and tenants in common each hold undivided interests, and one deed signed by both co-owners passes the entire title at once instead of splitting the transfer across two separately recorded half-interest releases. Former spouses hold as tenants in common after an absolute divorce ends an entireties estate, and a divorced pair conveying the whole parcel to one buyer completes the same configuration. A single owner's release, over one signature, follows a different layout than this form recites.

Release Words Instead of Warranty Words

Delaware writes a warranty into ordinary granting language: absent an express restriction, the statutory words grant and convey commit a grantor to a special warranty under 25 Del. C. § 121(b). A quitclaim, or quit claim deed, is drafted around that default, either through the release formula, remise, release, and forever quitclaim, or by restricting the statutory words so no covenant arises. On a two-grantor instrument the drafting protects both signers: neither co-owner leaves the transfer bound to defend the title later, and the grantee takes exactly the position the two owners held, as it stands of record.

One State, Three Recording Rulebooks

Recording in Delaware is governed county by county: state law hands formatting authority over paper size, type size, margins, and blank space to the recorder of deeds in each county (9 Del. C. § 9605(g)), and the three published rulebooks disagree enough that a first page set up for one office can miss the layout the next office publishes. This product is researched jurisdiction by jurisdiction, and a purchase delivers the edition matched to the buyer's recording county: New Castle County, Kent County, or Sussex County. Statewide content gates ride on every county edition, including the county tax parcel identification number (9 Del. C. § 9605(f)) and the first-page prepared-by statement (9 Del. C. § 9605(h)). The realty transfer tax return and affidavit of gain and value accompany the deed at recording even when an exemption class covers the transfer, and any tax due is apportioned equally between the grantor side and the grantee side of the transaction (30 Del. C. § 5402(a)).

Every county edition of this two-grantor form includes the fillable blank deed, a completed example prepared on that county's first-page format, and a line-by-line guide to the sections, signatures, and certificates. The materials are informational and are not legal advice.