Northampton County Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantee) Form

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Northampton County Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantee) Form

Northampton County Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantee) Form

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

Document Last Validated 7/28/2026
Northampton County Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantee) Guide

Northampton County Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantee) Guide

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

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Northampton County Completed Example of the Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantee) Document

Northampton County Completed Example of the Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantee) Document

Example of a properly completed North Carolina Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantee) document for reference.

Document Last Validated 7/28/2026

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

Where to Record Your Documents

Northampton Register Of Deeds

Address:
Jasper Eley Annex Bldg - 104 Thomas Bragg St / PO Box 128
Jackson, North Carolina 27845

Hours: 8:30 to 5:00 M-F / Recording until 4:30

Phone: (252) 534-2511

Recording Tips for Northampton County:
  • Bring your driver's license or state-issued photo ID
  • Request a receipt showing your recording numbers
  • Leave recording info boxes blank - the office fills these

Cities and Jurisdictions in Northampton County

Properties in any of these areas use Northampton County forms:

  • Conway
  • Garysburg
  • Gaston
  • Henrico
  • Jackson
  • Margarettsville
  • Pendleton
  • Pleasant Hill
  • Potecasi
  • Rich Square
  • Seaboard
  • Severn
  • Woodland

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Hours, fees, requirements, and more for Northampton County

How do I get my forms?

Forms are available for immediate download after payment. The Northampton 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 Northampton County?

Yes. Our form blanks are guaranteed to meet or exceed the applicable formatting requirements used for recording in Northampton 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 Northampton 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 Northampton County?

Recording fees in Northampton County vary. Contact the recorder's office at (252) 534-2511 for current fees.

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On this fillable North Carolina quitclaim deed the grantee blank asks for more than a name. It asks for a capacity: the trustee or trustees taking title, the name of the trust, and the date of the trust instrument. One individual grantor signs, releasing whatever interest that grantor holds, and the deed reaches the register of deeds already carrying the three trust identifiers a later title search looks for.

Naming the trustee, or naming the trust

Deeds arrive at North Carolina registries worded both ways, and the General Statutes anticipate it. G.S. 39-6.7(a) provides that an instrument purporting to transfer property to a trust is deemed a transfer to the trustee or trustees of that trust, and subsection (d) lets the trustee convey as trustee later even where the earlier deed ran to the trust by name. Section 8 prints that construction on the face of the instrument instead of leaving it to be argued afterward, while the blanks above are laid out for the cleaner version: the trustee named first, the trust identified by name and date beneath.

One grantor signs, and the trustee does not

The form recites exactly one individual grantor, with a mailing address and a line stating the marital status the grantor asserts, and one receiving side. Because a grantee does not sign a North Carolina deed, the trustee has no signature line, and the instrument carries one signature block and one acknowledgment certificate to match its single signer. Ownership patterns presenting this shape in the record include a sole owner moving a residence already titled in her own name into her revocable living trust, an owner shifting a rental parcel into a family trust signed years earlier, and a settlor finishing the funding of a trust when one parcel was left out. The form is not set up for two conveying owners, for a joinder signature by a spouse holding no record title, or for a parcel held by the entirety, where G.S. 41-58 calls for both spouses to join in writing before the estate moves.

Why cotrustees are not joint tenants

Naming two people as grantees usually opens the North Carolina co-ownership menu. Naming two trustees does not. G.S. 41-75(1) states that the joint tenancy Article does not apply to executors or trustees in their representative capacity, so cotrustees hold one title in that capacity, and what happens when one stops serving is answered by the trust instrument and the Uniform Trust Code: G.S. 36C-7-703(b) lets the remaining cotrustees act on a vacancy, and G.S. 36C-7-704(f) vests a successor trustee with the title to property of the former trustee. The trust instrument itself stays private. Where a buyer, lender, or insurer later wants the trustee's authority documented, G.S. 36C-10-1013 supplies a certification of trust, which subsection (j) allows to be executed for registration in the county where the land lies, prepared and recorded separately and not included in this package.

A release, not a warranty

North Carolina prescribes no quitclaim form, so this instrument, searched by some as a quit claim deed and by others as a non-warranty deed, works through its own words: the grantor remises, releases, and forever quitclaims all right, title, and interest, if any, to have and to hold to the grantee and the grantee's successors in trust, without covenant or warranty of title. G.S. 39-1 carries the grantor's whole estate unless the deed plainly shows a smaller one, so the trust takes the record position exactly as it stood, liens and all.

What the first page reports

Page one keeps the three inch recording space, states the instrument type below it, and gathers the drafter entry that G.S. 47-17.1 makes a condition of acceptance, the parcel identifier, the return address, and the excise figure. Trust funding transfers commonly land in the classes listed at G.S. 105-228.29, a gift or a transfer where no consideration is due or paid, and the reported figure is then zero. The body states each party's mailing address and whether the land takes in a grantor's primary residence, as G.S. 105-317.2 asks.

The package delivers this deed as a fillable PDF, a completed example worked through a New Hanover County transfer into a revocable living trust, and a plain language guide covering each numbered section, the trustee entries, the vesting menu, the excise treatment, and the county recording steps. The materials describe North Carolina law in general terms and are not legal advice.

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

This Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantee) meets all recording requirements specific to Northampton County.

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The documents you receive here are guaranteed to meet or exceed the applicable Northampton County recording format requirements. If there is a rejection caused by our formatting, we will correct the issue or refund your payment. This guarantee applies to document formatting only and does not extend to information entered by the user, the selection of the form, or the legal effect of the completed document.

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