Highlands County Warranty Deed Form

Florida's acknowledgment statute keeps a short label for the simplest signer a deed can carry: an individual acting in his or her own right. This Florida Warranty Deed (Individual Grantor) is built around that signer: one natural person holding record title, conveying to a grantee with the full warranty of the statutory deed form in Sections 689.02 and 689.03, Florida Statutes.

One grantor, acting in his or her own right

The form recites a single grantor in an individual capacity. The grantor section carries one name and one post-office address, the execution page carries one signature line flanked by two subscribing witness blocks, and the notary certificate follows the statutory short form of Section 695.25(1) for an individual acting in his or her own right, with the physical presence or online notarization indication that current Florida certificates carry. No officer title follows the signature, no company or trust appears as the conveying party, and no joining spouse's signature block appears anywhere on the deed: the execution page presents a conveyance in which the grantor's signature stands alone. A sole owner selling a house titled in one name, and a single titleholder passing an investment parcel to a buyer, present the one-grantor pattern this deed recites.

Full covenants from the 1891 short form

Florida wrote its warranty deed into the statute book in 1891, and this form keeps the statutory architecture. The deed conveys with the words "has granted, bargained and sold," and Section 689.03 holds a conveyance made substantially in the Section 689.02 form to be a warranty deed with full common-law covenants, a warranty of title that reaches the whole chain rather than the grantor's own years of ownership. An exceptions section carries the current year's taxes and the recorded easements and restrictions that will remain against the property, so those matters stand outside the covenant instead of contradicting it, and the parcel identification number blank that Section 689.02(2) builds into the statutory form sits beside the legal description.

Marital status on the face of the deed

One line of this deed states the grantor's marital status, and Florida title examiners look for it. Dower and curtesy are abolished in Florida, so the signature question on a lifetime deed is a homestead question: Article X, Section 4(c) of the Florida Constitution conditions a married owner's alienation of homestead real estate, by mortgage, sale, or gift, on the joinder of the owner's spouse. This form is arranged for the conveyance that rule leaves untouched, a grantor whose signature stands alone, the pattern of an unmarried grantor or of a married grantor conveying Florida property that is not the constitutional homestead. A married owner's conveyance of homestead shows the spouse joining in the deed on the face of the record, an execution pattern this form does not carry.

The checklist Section 695.26 writes into the deed

A Florida deed arrives at the recording counter carrying its own compliance data. Section 695.26 calls for the name and post-office address of the natural person who prepared the instrument, the grantee's name and post-office address, the printed name of every signer beneath the signature, and, since January 1, 2024, the printed name and post-office address of each subscribing witness. The form carries a labeled line for every item, reserves the blank 3 inch by 3 inch space at the top right of the first page for the Clerk of the Circuit Court, and keeps a 1 inch by 3 inch space at the top right of each later page. Documentary stamp tax falls due when the deed is recorded, at 70 cents per 100 dollars of consideration under Section 201.02 in every county except Miami-Dade, which taxes deeds under its own rate and surtax provisions.

The download delivers the blank deed as a fillable PDF behind a removable instructions page, a completed example worked through a Pinellas County sale from the grantor entry to the notary certificate, and a plain-language guide covering each numbered section, the witness and notary requirements, and the recording and documentary stamp steps. The materials describe Florida law and this form in general terms and are not legal advice.