Washoe County Quitclaim Deed (Divorce) Form

By the time this deed is drawn, Nevada law has already moved part of the title. NRS 111.781 severs the survivorship interests former spouses held, as joint tenants or as community property with right of survivorship, and leaves them equal tenants in common, while the vesting deed of record still reads as it did during the marriage. The Nevada Quitclaim Deed (Divorce) carries the rest into the county record: one former spouse signs as grantor, the other is named as grantee, and Section 3 pins the decree down by court, case number, and date of entry. A divorce quitclaim deed, a quit claim between former spouses, a quick claim form after a decree: the informal names point here.

What the decree settles, and what the deed records

NRS 125.150(1)(b) has a court granting a divorce make an equal disposition of the community property to the extent practicable, an unequal one only on a compelling reason set out in writing; subsection 2 reaches joint tenancy property the same way. Research located no Nevada statute making a decree operate by itself as a recorded conveyance of land. NRS 247.120(1) does list judgments or decrees among what a county recorder records, so a certified copy can sit in the record as its own document, obtained from the court clerk separately. A decree recorded that way is a court record of the adjudication; this deed is signed by the party whose interest moves, and indexed grantor to grantee.

One signature, because the marriage has ended

The architecture is single throughout: one grantor entry naming the former spouse releasing the interest, one grantee entry carrying the mailing address NRS 111.312(1) makes a condition of recordation, one signature line under the printed name rule of NRS 247.190, and one certificate in the individual short form at NRS 240.166. Two signatures would belong to a different moment: NRS 123.230(3) reaches community real property sold, conveyed, or encumbered by people still married, and it takes both of them to join and acknowledge. Shapes in the Nevada record include a release of the parcel the decree awarded whole to the other party, and one made while a deed of trust both parties signed stands of record against the land.

The name in the record and the name on the deed

Section 1 asks for two names, and the second is the point. Under NRS 125.130(4) a court granting a divorce may, by an order embodied in its decree, change the name of either party to any former name that party has legally borne, so the grantor may sign under one name while the vesting deed of record carries another. The entry naming the grantor as the vesting instrument names that person ties the two index entries together, and the example works it through a restored former name.

A release with no covenant behind it

The operative sentence remises, releases, and forever quitclaims. Left out on purpose are the three words NRS 111.170 charges with limited implied covenants, grant, bargain and sell. NRS 111.070 measures what moves: the estate the grantor holds at delivery and nothing past it, so recorded liens ride on with the parcel and a lender's note stays where the lender's paperwork put it.

Exemption 6 at the recorder's counter

The tax is settled before the deed is accepted: NRS 375.030 puts computation and collection on the recorder, and NRS 375.060 sends a State of Nevada Declaration of Value in with the filing, a state form obtained and handed in alongside the deed rather than supplied here. The rate is $1.95 for each $500 of value or fraction of it, except $2.55 in Clark County and $2.05 in Washoe and Churchill. NRS 375.090(6) exempts a transfer of title between former spouses in compliance with a decree of divorce, claimed by number on the declaration; Lyon County's published list notes that this entry calls for a copy of the decree. The first page carries the items NRS 111.312 makes conditions of recording, the parcel number in its top left corner among them, under the uppercase affirmation about a social security number, on a sheet drawn to NRS 247.110.

Three files download together: the fillable blank deed, a completed example built on a Mineral County release, and a guide covering the numbered sections, the ways a Nevada grantee may hold title, and recording. Everything here is informational, not legal advice; how these statutes fall on one decree or one chain of title is a question for a Nevada attorney.