Watonwan County Quitclaim Deed (Married Grantor with Non-Owner Spouse Joinder) Form

The spouse signs, and owns nothing of record. The Minnesota Quitclaim Deed (Married Grantor with Non-Owner Spouse Joinder) keeps one married owner as the sole Grantor and gives that owner's spouse a labeled joinder block whose printed sentence states what the signature does: the spouse claims no ownership interest in the property being conveyed and signs solely to release and convey a marital interest in it. Whatever the Grantor owns in the described Minnesota real property moves to the Grantee, and the deed itself carries no covenant or warranty of title.

The spouse who signs but does not own

Minnesota Statutes section 507.02 conditions the validity of a homestead conveyance on the signatures of both spouses, and it does so whether or not the second spouse appears anywhere on the vesting deed. That leaves a drafting question: how a person who owns nothing signs a deed without appearing to convey something. This deed answers it structurally. Section 2 names the married record owner as the Grantor. Section 3 names the spouse and prints the release sentence beneath the name. Section 7 carries the section 507.07 words conveys and quitclaims for the Grantor alone, then states that the spouse joins and signs solely to release marital interests and conveys no ownership interest by the deed. The execution section labels one block GRANTOR and the other GRANTOR'S SPOUSE (JOINDER ONLY), so the record itself shows which signature moved title and which released a marital right.

A sentence written for the county auditor

The release sentence in Section 3 is not house drafting. Minnesota Statutes section 272.115, subdivision 1, supplies a statement a deed may substantially contain where a married non-owner spouse signs only to release marital rights, and it attaches a consequence: where a deed substantially contains it, the auditor may take the eCRV filing without collecting that spouse's Social Security number or federal employer identification number. Printing the sentence on the deed instead of burying it in an addendum puts the identification answer where the auditor and the closer both look. The same face carries the drafter statement of section 507.091 and the tax statement addressee of section 507.092, two entries Minnesota recording law makes conditions of recording, plus the three well disclosure statements of section 103I.235 and a line for an electronically filed certificate number.

What this configuration recites

The form recites exactly one record owner and exactly one joining spouse, with two signature blocks and a separate acknowledgment certificate for each signer in the section 358.66 short form, so the two may acknowledge on different days or before different notarial officers. It is not set up as a conveyance by two owners of record, where both signers would pass ownership, and it is not set up for a sole owner who is unmarried and needs no joinder at all. A homestead titled in one spouse's name that is sold to a buyer, a married owner passing separately titled property to a relative, and a conveyance clearing a stray interest where homestead character is an open question all present the pattern this deed recites. Searches for a quit claim deed with spousal joinder land on this same instrument.

Ramsey County, by the numbers

The completed example runs a Ramsey County sale: a married owner quitclaims a platted Roseville lot for $215,000, and the deed tax entry reads $731.00, which is $709.50 of state deed tax at the 0.0033 rate of section 287.21 plus $21.50 of Ramsey County environmental response tax at 0.0001 under section 383A.80, an authority the 2026 legislature extended to January 1, 2036. The eCRV confirmation number and the deed date sit in Section 1, well disclosure statement (A) certifies no known wells, and the property is entered as Abstract land, which routes the instrument to the recorder rather than the registrar of titles. Under section 272.12 the auditor enters the transfer and certifies the taxes before the recorder takes the deed; the flat $46 fee of section 357.18 and the race-notice priority of section 507.34 follow.

The package delivers the fillable form, a completed example built on the Ramsey County facts above, and a guide that walks the numbered sections, the section 507.02 signature rule, grantee title options under section 500.19, and each county step from auditor to recorder. The materials are informational and are not legal advice.