Hawaii Quitclaim Deed

A Hawaii quitclaim deed is measured by its grantor rather than by the parcel. It moves whatever interest that person turns out to hold at delivery and promises nothing about the size of it. This Hawaii Quitclaim Deed is a fillable form for that release, drawn for one or two individual grantors conveying to one or two individual grantees, in the format the Bureau of Conveyances records.

What a release carries, and what it leaves behind

The operative section remises, releases, and forever quitclaims the grantor's right, title, and interest in the described land, then runs the habendum to the grantee and the grantee's heirs, successors, and assigns. In the same section the deed states that no covenant or warranty of title is made, and a capitalized line repeats that the instrument conveys only the interest the grantor holds at delivery. The doubling is deliberate, since Hawaii prints no statutory short form deed and a deed therefore carries exactly the covenants its own text supplies. Mortgages, easements, reservations, restrictions, and liens of record ride through the conveyance untouched.

Blanks the parties fill with their own words

This form recites party positions rather than a fixed cast. One or two natural persons sign as grantors, one or two natural persons are named as grantees, and every party block is a free-form entry with no preprinted status, capacity, or ownership language anywhere on the page. The names, any status wording, and any co-ownership designation following the grantee names are written in by the person completing the form, and the conveyance section provides that where two grantors sign, each of them conveys that grantor's own interest. Two signature blocks and one acknowledgment certificate for each of them follow, with the second pair left blank on a single grantor conveyance. Four count patterns run through the Hawaii record on this shape, one or two owners releasing to one or two grantees. A conveyance signed by a corporate officer, by a company member or manager, by a partner, by a trustee under a trust instrument, or by an agent under a recorded power of attorney recites signing authority differently, and three or more owners on a side sit outside two party positions; this form is set up as none of those.

The address rule that stops a recording

One entry on this deed is a condition of recording rather than paperwork. Hawaii Administrative Rules section 13-16-7 provides that the registrar shall not record a document unless it contains or has endorsed upon it the address of the grantee, so the mailing address blank beneath the grantee names carries as much weight at the counter as the legal description. Two neighboring rules sit beside it: section 13-16-4 places the parties, the document type, and the tax map key on the first page and forbids any discrepancy between a name in the body, the printed name beneath the signature, and the name inside the notary's certificate.

Which system the parcel answers to

Hawaii records statewide through two systems that treat one document differently, which is why section 1 asks its three questions before the deed reaches the parties. In the Regular System, section 502-83 gives priority to the instrument recorded first and leaves an unrecorded conveyance void against a later purchaser for value without notice. Under the Land Court, registration on the certificate of title is the operative act, so the tax map key, the system, and a certificate of title number sit together at the top.

Before the deed reaches the record book

Section 247-6 keeps a conveyance out of the record until its tax question is answered. Form P-64A reports the actual and full consideration and computes the tax at the graduated rates of section 247-2, and Form P-64B claims one of the section 247-3 exemptions, among them a nominal consideration document between spouses, reciprocal beneficiaries, or parent and child. Both are Department of Taxation forms, obtained and completed separately from this download.

Inside the download: the blank instrument, also searched as a quit claim deed, in fillable PDF form; a completed example filled in on an Island of Hawaii pattern where two owners release a Hilo lot to a couple taking as tenants by the entirety; and a plain language guide that walks each entry, the ownership forms Hawaii recognizes, signing before a notary, the conveyance tax certificate, and what the recording desk expects. Nothing in this package is legal advice, and it speaks about Hawaii law and this form in general terms.