Charlevoix County Easement Deed Form (Michigan)

All Charlevoix County specific forms and documents listed below are included in your immediate download package:

Easement Deed Form

Charlevoix County Easement Deed Form

Fill in the blank form formatted to comply with all recording and content requirements.
Included Charlevoix County compliant document last validated/updated 6/3/2025

Easement Deed Guide

Charlevoix County Easement Deed Guide

Line by line guide explaining every blank on the form.
Included Charlevoix County compliant document last validated/updated 5/19/2025

Completed Example of the Easement Deed Document

Charlevoix County Completed Example of the Easement Deed Document

Example of a properly completed form for reference.
Included Charlevoix County compliant document last validated/updated 7/10/2025

Guide to Writing an Easement Description

Charlevoix County Guide to Writing an Easement Description

A Description of the Easement will be required. This will show how to write an acceptable description for a Right of Way Easement, which gives access, to and from - point A to point B.
Included Charlevoix County compliant document last validated/updated 7/25/2025

When using these Easement Deed forms, the subject real estate must be physically located in Charlevoix County. The executed documents should then be recorded in the following office:

Charlevoix County Register of Deeds

County Building - 301 State St, Charlevoix, Michigan 49720

Hours: 7:00 to 5:00 M-F / Recording from 9:00 to 5:00

Phone: (231) 547-7204

Local jurisdictions located in Charlevoix County include:

  • Bay Shore
  • Beaver Island
  • Boyne City
  • Boyne Falls
  • Charlevoix
  • East Jordan
  • Walloon Lake

How long does it take to get my forms?

Forms are available immediately after submitting payment.

How do I get my forms, are they emailed?

Immediately after you submit payment, the Charlevoix County forms you order will be available for download directly from your account. You can then download the forms to your computer. If you do not already have an account, one will be created for you as part of the order process, and your login details will be provided to you. If you encounter any issues accessing your forms, please reach out to our support team for assistance. Forms are NOT emailed to you.

What does "validated/updated" mean?

This indicates the most recent date when at least one of the following occurred:

  • Updated: The document was updated or changed to remain compliant.
  • Validated: The document was examined by an attorney or staff, or it was successfully recorded in Charlevoix County using our eRecording service.
Are these forms guaranteed to be recordable in Charlevoix County?

Yes. Our form blanks are guaranteed to meet or exceed all formatting requirements set forth by Charlevoix County including margin requirements, content requirements, font and font size requirements.

Can the Easement Deed forms be re-used?

Yes. You can re-use the forms for your personal use. For example, if you have more than one property in Charlevoix County that you need to transfer you would only need to order our forms once for all of your properties in Charlevoix County.

What are supplemental forms?

Often when a deed is recorded, additional documents are required by Michigan or Charlevoix County. These could be tax related, informational, or even as simple as a coversheet. Supplemental forms are provided for free with your order where available.

What type of files are the forms?

All of our Charlevoix County Easement Deed forms are PDFs. You will need to have or get Adobe Reader to use our forms. Adobe Reader is free software that most computers already have installed.

Do I need any special software to use these forms?

You will need to have Adobe Reader installed on your computer to use our forms. Adobe Reader is free software that most computers already have installed.

Do I have to enter all of my property information online?

No. The blank forms are downloaded to your computer and you fill them out there, at your convenience.

Can I save the completed form, email it to someone?

Yes, you can save your deed form at any point with your information in it. The forms can also be emailed, blank or complete, as attachments.

Are there any recurring fees involved?

No. Nothing to cancel, no memberships, no recurring fees.

An easement is an interest in real estate that gives one person the right to use someone else's land for a specific purpose. The focus of an easement is on usage, not on ownership. There are two types of easements: an easement appurtenant and an easement in gross. Further, easements can be affirmative or negative. An appurtenant easement benefits the dominant estate and runs with the land when the property is transferred. An easement in gross benefits an individual or a legal entity. An easement in Michigan is generally created by a deed in writing or by operation of law. The easement deed should specify the terms and conditions of the easement itself.

As an interest in real property, an easement deed in Michigan must be signed, dated, and acknowledged by the grantor. If an easement deed is executed in Michigan, it can be acknowledged before a judge, clerk of a court of record, or notary public within the state and should be endorsed with a certificate of acknowledgment by the officer taking acknowledgments (565.8). Michigan adheres to the uniform recognition of acknowledgments act, which means that an instrument acknowledged out of state can be recorded in Michigan if the instrument complies with that state's laws (565.9).

Recording can be a crucial step in protecting easement rights. An unrecorded easement deed is void as against any subsequent purchaser in good faith and for a valuable consideration, of the same real estate or portion thereof, whose conveyance is first duly recorded (565.29).

(Michigan ED Package includes form, guidelines, and completed example)

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The documents you receive here will meet, or exceed, the Charlevoix County recording requirements for formatting. If there's an issue caused by our formatting, we'll make it right and refund your payment.

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May 22nd, 2021

I thought the forms were reasonably priced, the instructions included in the packet were thorough, and the examples helpful. Thank you for the additional CDR forms too. I contacted the Recorder's office via email with a question and Jennifer Bowser answered promptly. Job well done! However, when I delivered the deed and Real Property Transfer Declaration to the Clerk's office in Lafayette, the clerk was unfamiliar with the Declaration document being submitted and it took some time to convince her to submit the form without charging the recording fee. She even tried to phone the recorder's office for clarification, but no one answered. There then was an additional form at that office that I had to complete called Recording Request/Transmittal Form. I would suggest including that form with instructions in your on-line packet to speed up the process when a Deed is delivered to the County Clerk's satellite office. I do not expect every clerk to know all the particulars of recording requirements but a little knowledge wouldn't hurt.

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