Clay County Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantee) Form
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Clay County Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantee) Form
Fill in the blank Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantee) form formatted to comply with all Iowa recording and content requirements.

Clay County Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantee) Guide
Line by line guide explaining every blank on the Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantee) form.

Clay County Completed Example of the Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantee) Document
Example of a properly completed Iowa Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantee) document for reference.
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Where to Record Your Documents
Clay County Recorder
Spencer, Iowa 51301
Hours: 8:00am to 4:30pm M-F
Phone: (712) 262-1081
Recording Tips for Clay County:
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- Verify all names are spelled correctly before recording
- Verify the recording date if timing is critical for your transaction
Cities and Jurisdictions in Clay County
Properties in any of these areas use Clay County forms:
- Dickens
- Everly
- Fostoria
- Gillett Grove
- Greenville
- Peterson
- Royal
- Spencer
- Webb
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Are these forms guaranteed to be recordable in Clay County?
Yes. Our form blanks are guaranteed to meet or exceed the applicable formatting requirements used for recording in Clay County, including margin requirements, font requirements, and other layout standards. This guarantee applies to formatting, not to the legal sufficiency of information entered by the user or the suitability of a form for a particular transaction.
Can I reuse these forms?
Yes. You can reuse the forms for your personal use. For example, if you have multiple properties in Clay County you only need to order once.
What do I need to use these forms?
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Are there any recurring fees?
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How much does it cost to record in Clay County?
Recording fees in Clay County vary. Contact the recorder's office at (712) 262-1081 for current fees.
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The grantee on this Iowa quitclaim deed takes the property in a capacity rather than in the grantee's own right. The form is built for that transfer: one individual grantor quitclaims to a trustee, the grantee entry names the person who holds the legal title as trustee, and a section of its own identifies the trust by name and by the date of the trust instrument.
A quitclaim that comes to rest in a trust
The operative words follow the statutory quitclaim form of Iowa Code section 558.19: for the stated consideration, the grantor quitclaims all of the grantor's interest in the described tract. Nothing is warranted about that interest. A mortgage stays on the land, and easements, covenants, assessments, and unpaid taxes ride into the trust with the parcel.
The destination is what separates this deed from an ordinary quitclaim. Title is taken and held by the named trustee, and by the successor trustees, on the terms of the trust instrument, so no co-ownership designation follows the grantee name: succession is written in the trust rather than in the deed. Iowa Code section 557.10 requires an instrument creating a trust in relation to real estate to be executed like a deed of conveyance; this deed is not that instrument, and it conveys to the trustee of a trust already in existence on the date it states.
What the deed names, and what the trustee produces later
Two blanks carry the trust: its full name as the trust instrument states it, and the date of that instrument. The grantee entry states the trustee capacity beside the trustee's name and mailing address. That entry recites a capacity; a recital of that kind does not by itself establish the trust or the trustee's powers, and Iowa Code section 633A.4604 supplies the certification of trust a bank, buyer, or title examiner may later require, prepared separately and not part of this package.
One grantor, and the signature a married grantor's spouse adds
The form recites exactly one individual grantor, married or unmarried, with one signature block, and gives the spouse of a married grantor a labeled block of that spouse's own. Iowa Code section 561.13 makes a married owner's homestead conveyance valid only when the owner's spouse executes the same or a like instrument, and section 561.13(2) lets a spouse who specifically relinquishes homestead rights stay out of the granting clause. The printed relinquishment states that limit and no other waiver, which matters on this deed because Iowa Code section 633.238(2) confines the reach of a general waiver given in a conveyance to the trustee of the grantor's revocable trust. Each block carries an acknowledgment certificate of its own under Iowa Code section 9B.16, so the two signers may appear separately.
Records in this shape appear when an owner moves a long-held residence into a revocable trust created years earlier, when a parcel left out at the original funding is deeded in afterward, and when an owner conveys ground to an adult child serving as trustee for a younger relative. The form is not set up for two grantors, an entity grantor, or a grantor signing as trustee, executor, or attorney in fact.
The transfer tax question a trust deed raises
Iowa charges eighty cents for each five hundred dollars of consideration above the first five hundred, and Iowa Code section 428A.2 lists the exceptions. Subsection 21 covers deeds in which the consideration is five hundred dollars or less, the ground the included example claims for a funding transfer where nothing passes; Section 10 of the deed is the signed exception statement Iowa Code section 428A.4 accepts in place of payment. That subsection also sits inside the group section 428A.4(2) releases from the declaration of value, so the example records without one. The statute is not symmetrical about trusts: subsection 22 excepts a deed distributing trust assets to beneficiaries without consideration, yet falls outside that release, so a deed out of a trust still carries the form.
Formatted for the recorder
The top three inches of the first page stay clear for recording information, and the three first-page entries of Iowa Code section 331.606B print in labeled blocks beneath it. The statutory no-condition groundwater sentence of Iowa Code section 558.69 sits under the title.
The purchase delivers the fillable blank deed, a completed example prepared as a Black Hawk County conveyance into a revocable trust, and a plain language guide to the sections, the signing, and the recording. The materials are informational, not legal advice.
Important: Your property must be located in Clay County to use these forms. Documents should be recorded at the office below.
This Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantee) meets all recording requirements specific to Clay County.
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