Effingham County Quitclaim Deed (Married Couple as Grantors) Form

Husband and wife sign this Georgia quitclaim deed as its two grantors, each spouse releasing that spouse's own right, title, and interest in the property to a single named grantee, with no warranty of title. The form is arranged for exactly that configuration, two spouses signing in their individual capacities, and it records with the clerk of superior court of the county where the property lies.

Marriage puts no one on a Georgia deed; record title does

Georgia is a common-law property state: no community property, no tenancy by the entirety, and no dower or curtesy, which O.C.G.A. Section 53-1-3 abolished. A spouse therefore signs a Georgia conveyance as a grantor for one reason, that spouse holds record title. When a couple bought or inherited together, both names sit in the chain of title, and both releases travel on this one instrument, which recites that the two grantors are married to each other. Whether the couple holds as tenants in common, the Georgia default for co-owners under O.C.G.A. Section 44-6-120, or under the express survivorship words of O.C.G.A. Section 44-6-190, the two releases together reach the couple's entire record interest. The operative language remises, releases, and forever quitclaims each spouse's interest, and because O.C.G.A. Section 44-5-61 implies no warranty in any Georgia deed, an express no-warranty statement closes the point. No prescribed form is essential to a Georgia deed under O.C.G.A. Section 44-5-33, and the instrument is also searched as a quit claim deed or non-warranty deed.

Both parents on one gift deed, and other couple patterns

The married-couple configuration appears in the record wherever spouses give or transfer together. Both parents joining one deed to pass the family home or a rental house to an adult child is the classic shape, and it is the fact pattern the completed example shows: a DeKalb County couple deeding the home place to their daughter as a gift. Spouses moving a jointly titled parcel into a family limited liability company, and a couple releasing their combined interest to settle a boundary or estate question among relatives, present the same two-grantor, married configuration. In each of these, the grantee takes exactly what the couple holds, subject to whatever security deeds and liens already attach, the reason the quitclaim form appears between parties who already know the title.

Two execution sets, one sitting, no extra spousal line

Georgia executes deeds by attestation: under O.C.G.A. Section 44-5-30, each signature is witnessed by an officer listed in O.C.G.A. Section 44-2-15, ordinarily a Georgia notary, and by one other witness, the unofficial witness. The form gives each spouse a full execution set, a signature line, a witness block, and an officer certificate captioned as an attestation, and a married couple commonly completes both sets in a single sitting, one notary and one disinterested adult witnessing both signatures, as the completed example shows. What the form does not carry is any third spousal-consent line: with dower and curtesy gone and no community regime, Georgia knows no signature that marriage alone would add, and both spouses already sign as grantors.

The PT-61 rides along even when no tax is due

Every Georgia deed of conveyance is presented with a PT-61 Real Estate Transfer Tax filing completed through the GSCCCA system, and the clerk certifies the tax before the deed records (O.C.G.A. Section 48-6-4). A gift deed owes no transfer tax, since O.C.G.A. Section 48-6-2 exempts deeds of gift, and the PT-61 states the exemption; where value passes, the tax is computed on the consideration or value above $100 (O.C.G.A. Section 48-6-1). Recording itself costs a flat $25.00 statewide (O.C.G.A. Section 15-6-77). A couple filing without an attorney or other professional filer submits electronically through the GSCCCA portal with verified government identification, Georgia's self-filer rule in force since January 1, 2025. The first page reserves three inches for the clerk's notation (O.C.G.A. Section 15-6-61(a)(10)), places the return-to name and mailing address at the top (O.C.G.A. Section 44-2-14(b)), and carries a parcel number line that answers DeKalb County's first-page rule.

The purchase delivers the blank deed as a fillable PDF, a completed example filled in for a realistic DeKalb County gift from a married couple to an adult child, and a plain language guide that walks through each numbered section, the witness and attestation formalities for both spouses, and the PT-61 filing and recording path. The materials describe Georgia law in general terms and are not legal advice.