Howell County Quitclaim Deed (Two Grantors) Form

Two grantors on one Missouri quitclaim deed: this form is arranged for a pair of natural persons, most often co-owners or a married couple, who together release to a grantee whatever right, title, and interest they both hold in Missouri real property. The document carries two grantor blocks, a marital status line for each grantor, two signature lines with printed names beneath them, and two notarial acknowledgment certificates, so a two-owner conveyance appears on the face of the record exactly the way Missouri's recording standards expect to see it.

Two grantor blocks, two signatures, two certificates

The form recites exactly two grantors, each acting in an individual capacity. Section 1 collects each grantor's name and mailing address and states each grantor's marital status, the married or unmarried statement Section 442.130 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri supplies for every natural person who executes a conveyance; with two grantors, that statement appears twice, once for each. Both grantors sign, and each signature receives its own acknowledgment certificate, so the two grantors may appear before different notaries, in different counties or even different states, and on different dates. Two co-owners conveying an entire parcel to a single new owner, spouses passing jointly held property to a family member, and co-owners adjusting shares between themselves present the two-grantor pattern this deed recites. A conveyance by a sole owner, by three or more owners, or by a trustee or company officer follows a different execution pattern than the two individual signature blocks here.

When Missouri asks for both spouses

A two-grantor deed is where Missouri's spousal conveyance statutes come into view. Section 513.475 makes a homestead off limits to separate alienation: either spouse acting alone is barred from selling, mortgaging, or otherwise alienating it, and a separate attempt is null and void, while a joint conveyance by husband and wife stands. Section 442.030 lets spouses convey the real estate of either spouse by a joint, acknowledged deed, and property held by the entirety moves only through the spouses acting together. A married couple named as the two grantors, each stating a marital status and each signing and acknowledging, is the joint execution those statutes describe, and the completed example included with this form works through exactly that pattern for a Greene County parcel.

A first page built around two grantors

Missouri's first-page standard puts the document title, the date, the grantors' names and marital status, the grantee, and the legal description below a three inch top band reserved for the recorder. Two grantor blocks and two marital status lines claim most of that space, and the recording statute answers with a page reference: when first-page room runs out, the legal description may be located by a reference printed on page one. This deed prints that reference after the grantee section, and the legal description begins Section 3 at the top of page two, so the instrument stays inside Section 59.310's format rules without squeezing the description into leftover space.

A release, not a promise

The operative section remises, releases, and forever quitclaims the combined interests of both grantors, states that no covenant of title arises from any word in the deed, and provides that title a grantor picks up later does not pass. Searchers reach this document under several names, quit claim deed and quitclaim form among them, and Missouri practice treats the wording rather than the label as what matters: because the deed never uses the statutory words grant, bargain and sell, the implied covenants of Section 442.420 stay out of it. Recording happens at the recorder of deeds for the county where the land lies, or at the City of St. Louis recorder for city property, and each office's published fee schedule states the current cost.

The purchase delivers three items: the two-grantor quitclaim deed as a fillable PDF, a completed example showing the form filled in for the Greene County fact pattern described above, and a guide that walks through each section, the marital status statements, the two acknowledgments, and the recording steps. The materials describe Missouri law in general terms; they are informational and not legal advice.