Lea County Quitclaim Deed (Individual Grantor) Form

One grantor, one signature line, one acknowledgment certificate: this New Mexico quitclaim deed is set up for a single individual who releases whatever interest he or she holds in New Mexico real estate. The form follows the statutory quitclaim deed form at NMSA 1978, Section 47-1-44, and conveys the grantor's present interest to the named grantee without any covenant of title.

A deed that conveys an interest, not a promise

New Mexico distinguishes its three statutory deeds with two defined phrases. A deed granting with warranty covenants implies the full set of title covenants under Section 47-1-37, and one granting with special warranty covenants implies the limited set under Section 47-1-38. The quitclaim deed simply omits both phrases, and that omission is the entire disclaimer: the operative word quitclaims passes whatever right, title, and interest the grantor holds at delivery, and nothing more. Where the grantor turns out to hold nothing, the deed conveys nothing, and an interest the grantor acquires later does not flow through it under New Mexico title practice. That honesty about scope is why quitclaim deeds dominate gift and intra-family transfers, title-clearing releases, and other transactions in which the grantee accepts the title as it stands rather than buying assurances about it.

One grantor, one signature, and the marital status line

The form recites exactly one individual grantor, carries one signature line, and closes with a single acknowledgment certificate worded to the New Mexico statutory short form, This record was acknowledged before me on. A marital status line sits in the grantor section because New Mexico is a community property state: a transfer of community real property by one spouse alone is void under Section 40-3-13(A), and the joinder rule reaches even separate property the spouses hold together as cotenants. The single-signature layout recites an unmarried grantor's release, or a married grantor's conveyance of solely held separate property; the form is not set up as a two-spouse conveyance, and the guide walks through the statute's joinder rules and the recorded-instrument paths it recognizes. An unmarried owner releasing an interest to a relative, an heir clearing a questioned fractional share, and a former co-owner completing a division of ownership present the single-grantor pattern this deed recites.

Recording a quitclaim deed in New Mexico

The completed deed is recorded with the county clerk of the county where the property sits. New Mexico charges a flat twenty-five dollar recording fee per document for up to ten index entries and imposes no transfer tax or documentary stamps. Acknowledgment before a notarial officer is the one statutory gate: an unacknowledged deed may not be recorded, while witnesses, seals, and preparer statements are not required. For residential property, a confidential transfer declaration affidavit goes to the county assessor within thirty days of recording, and the statute exempts several patterns common to quitclaim transactions, including instruments delivered to establish a gift and quitclaim deeds recorded to quiet title or clear a boundary dispute; the guide describes the affidavit and its exemption list. The form itself is letter size with a full top-of-page-one reserve for the clerk's recording label, built inside every published county format rule located in the state.

What the package includes

The package delivers the quitclaim deed as a fillable PDF, a completed example showing the entire document filled in for a realistic Bernalillo County fact pattern, and a plain-language guide that walks through every numbered section, the community property joinder rules, and the recording steps, county fee structure included. Also searched as a quit claim deed or quick claim deed, the instrument prepared here is the New Mexico statutory quitclaim deed for one individual grantor. The materials are informational and are not legal advice; a New Mexico attorney can apply these rules to a specific title.