Lewis County Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantor) Form

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Lewis County Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantor) Form

Lewis County Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantor) Form

Fill in the blank Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantor) form formatted to comply with all Missouri recording and content requirements.

Document Last Validated 7/28/2026
Lewis County Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantor) Guide

Lewis County Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantor) Guide

Line by line guide explaining every blank on the Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantor) form.

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Lewis County Completed Example of the Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantor) Document

Lewis County Completed Example of the Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantor) Document

Example of a properly completed Missouri Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantor) document for reference.

Document Last Validated 7/28/2026

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Important: Your property must be located in Lewis County to use these forms. Documents should be recorded at the office below.

Where to Record Your Documents

Lewis County Recorder of Deeds

Address:
100 East Lafayette St / PO Box 97
Monticello, Missouri 63457

Hours: 8:00 to 12:00 & 1:00 to 4:00 Monday through Friday

Phone: (573) 767-5440

Recording Tips for Lewis County:
  • Double-check legal descriptions match your existing deed
  • Verify all names are spelled correctly before recording
  • Recorded documents become public record - avoid including SSNs

Cities and Jurisdictions in Lewis County

Properties in any of these areas use Lewis County forms:

  • Canton
  • Durham
  • Ewing
  • La Belle
  • La Grange
  • Lewistown
  • Monticello
  • Williamstown

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Hours, fees, requirements, and more for Lewis County

How do I get my forms?

Forms are available for immediate download after payment. The Lewis County forms will be in your account ready to download to your computer. An account is created for you during checkout if you don't have one. Forms are NOT emailed.

Are these forms guaranteed to be recordable in Lewis County?

Yes. Our form blanks are guaranteed to meet or exceed the applicable formatting requirements used for recording in Lewis 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 Lewis County you only need to order once.

What do I need to use these forms?

The forms are PDFs that you fill out on your computer. You'll need Adobe Reader (free software that most computers already have). You do NOT enter your property information online - you download the blank forms and complete them privately on your own computer.

Are there any recurring fees?

No. This is a one-time purchase. Nothing to cancel, no memberships, no recurring fees.

How much does it cost to record in Lewis County?

Recording fees in Lewis County vary. Contact the recorder's office at (573) 767-5440 for current fees.

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The Grantor on this Missouri quitclaim deed signs as a fiduciary. The deed names a trustee, the trust that trustee serves, and the date on which that trust instrument was signed, and what it releases is the interest the trustee holds as trustee, nothing owned personally. One signature line, one printed name line, and one acknowledgment certificate whose name line carries the fiduciary capacity: that is the shape of a Missouri quitclaim deed out of a trust.

Where the power to sign comes from

The trust instrument answers first, and Chapter 456 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri fills the rest. Section 456.8-815 gives a trustee the powers the terms of the trust confer and, except as those terms limit them, all powers over trust property that an unmarried competent owner has over individually owned property. Section 456.8-816 names particular ones: selling property in divided or undivided interests at public or private sale, delivering instruments useful to the exercise of the trustee's powers, and, on termination of the trust, winding up the administration and distributing trust property to the persons entitled to it. Every one is exercised subject to the fiduciary duties Chapter 456 imposes, which is why a deed like this one says in what capacity the signer acts.

Signing as trustee, not as an owner

The form recites exactly one trustee, a natural person signing in a fiduciary capacity and not individually. The grantor section collects the trustee's name, the trust name, the date of the trust instrument, a mailing address, and the married or unmarried statement Section 442.130 draws from any natural person who executes a Missouri conveyance. A successor trustee distributing a parcel as a revocable trust winds up after the settlor's death, a trustee deeding land back to a settlor who has revoked the trust, and a trustee releasing a trust interest the record leaves uncertain all present the pattern this deed recites. Two or three serving cotrustees do not: Section 456.7-703 has cotrustees act by majority decision, so a deed out of that trust carries a signature block and a certificate for each one who signs. A corporate trustee signs through an officer, under the Section 442.210 certificate for corporations.

A release of interest, and nothing promised

Missouri publishes no official quitclaim form and no statutory form for a deed by a trustee, so the operative words carry the instrument. Section 442.420 turns the words grant, bargain and sell into limited statutory covenants of title, so this deed never uses them. It remises, releases, and forever quitclaims, and it says in terms that nothing written in it implies a covenant of title. The conveyance stops at the interest held when the deed is delivered, leaving the after acquired title rule of Section 442.430 outside the transaction, and deeds of trust, easements, and unpaid taxes already burdening the property continue to burden it.

One label, two Missouri instruments

The phrase trustee's deed does double duty in Missouri. One meaning is this instrument, a conveyance by the trustee of a trust holding title to land. The other is the deed a trustee named in a deed of trust delivers after a foreclosure sale, which belongs to Chapter 443 and is prepared apart from this package. A quit claim deed from a trust is the first of the two.

Recording where the land lies

Recording happens where the land lies. The recorder of deeds for that Missouri county, or the City of St. Louis recorder, takes the signed and notarized deed, and Section 442.390 has the filing impart notice of its contents to all persons. No Missouri transfer tax attaches, so cost comes to the county's published page fees plus the statutory recorder user fee. Page one leaves its top three inches clear for the recorder, carries the parties and the marital status statement, and locates the legal description by a printed reference. Nothing in the deed proves the trustee's authority; a certification of trust under Section 456.10-1013 does that work and is signed and delivered separately.

Three items come with the purchase: this trustee quitclaim deed as a fillable PDF, a completed example carrying a Cole County distribution out of a family trust through every blank, and a plain language guide to the form, the trustee powers behind the signature, and recording. These materials describe Missouri law generally, for information, and are not legal advice.

Important: Your property must be located in Lewis County to use these forms. Documents should be recorded at the office below.

This Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantor) meets all recording requirements specific to Lewis County.

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