Providence County Quitclaim Deed (Reserving Life Estate) Form
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Providence County Quitclaim Deed (Reserving Life Estate) Form
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Where to Record Your Documents
Burrillville Town Clerk
Harrisville, Rhode Island 02830
Hours: 8:30 to 4:30 M-W; 8:30 to 7:00 Thu; 8:30 to 12:30 Fri
Phone: (401) 568-4300 Ext 124
Central Falls City Clerk
Central Falls, Rhode Island 02863
Hours: 8:30 to 4:30 M-Th; 8:30 to 1:30 Fri; 3rd Thu 8:30 to 7:00
Phone: (401) 727-7400
Cranston City Clerk
Cranston, Rhode Island 02910
Hours: 8:30 to 4:30 M-F
Phone: (401) 461-1000 Ext 3130
Cumberland Town Clerk
Cumberland , Rhode Island 02864
Hours: 8:30 to 4:30 Mon - Fri
Phone: (401) 728-2400 Ext 163, 135, 133
East Providence City Clerk
East Providence, Rhode Island 02914
Hours: 8:00 to 4:00 M-F
Phone: (401) 435-7594
Foster Town Clerk
Foster, Rhode Island 02825
Hours: Monday - Thursday 8:30 am - 5:30 pm Closed Fridays
Phone: (401) 392-9201
Glocester Town Clerk
Chepachet, Rhode Island 02814-0702
Hours: 8:00am to 4:30pm M-F
Phone: (401) 568-6206 Ext 0
Johnston Town Clerk
Johnston, Rhode Island 02919
Hours: 8:30 to 4:30 M-F
Phone: (401) 351-6618
Lincoln Town Clerk
Lincoln, Rhode Island 02865
Hours: 8:30 to 4:30 M-F
Phone: (401) 333-1100 Ext 8005
North Providence Town Clerk
North Providence, Rhode Island 02911
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30 to 4:30 /Recording until 4:00. Summer: 8:30 to 4:00 /Recording until 3:30
Phone: (401) 232-0900, Ext. 207
North Smithfield Town Clerk
Slatersville, Rhode Island 02896
Hours: 8:30 to 4:00 M-F
Phone: 401-767-2200 Ext 324
Pawtucket City Clerk
Pawtucket, Rhode Island 02860
Hours: 8:30 to 4:30 M-F / Recording until 3:30
Phone: (401) 728-0500 Ext 261
Providence City Clerk
Providence, Rhode Island 02903
Hours: 8:30 to 3:30 M-F
Phone: (401) 421-7740 Ext 547
Scituate Town Clerk
North Scituate, Rhode Island 02857
Hours: 8:30 to 4:00 M-F / Recording 8:45 to 3:45
Phone: (401) 647-2822
Smithfield Town Clerk
Smithfield, Rhode Island 02917
Hours: 8:30 to 4:30 M-F / Recording until 3:45
Phone: (401) 233-1000
Woonsocket City Clerk
Woonsocket, Rhode Island 02895
Hours: 8:30 to 4:00 M-F
Phone: (401) 767-9249
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Cities and Jurisdictions in Providence County
Properties in any of these areas use Providence County forms:
- Albion
- Central Falls
- Chepachet
- Clayville
- Cranston
- Cumberland
- East Providence
- Fiskeville
- Forestdale
- Foster
- Glendale
- Greenville
- Harmony
- Harrisville
- Hope
- Johnston
- Lincoln
- Manville
- Mapleville
- North Providence
- North Scituate
- North Smithfield
- Oakland
- Pascoag
- Pawtucket
- Providence
- Riverside
- Rumford
- Slatersville
- Smithfield
- Woonsocket
Hours, fees, requirements, and more for Providence County
How do I get my forms?
Forms are available for immediate download after payment. The Providence 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 Providence County?
Yes. Our form blanks are guaranteed to meet or exceed the applicable formatting requirements used for recording in Providence 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 Providence 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 Providence County?
Recording fees in Providence County vary. Contact the recorder's office at (401) 568-4300 Ext 124 for current fees.
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This deed divides a Rhode Island parcel along a line drawn in time rather than across the ground. The grantor keeps possession of the property for life, while the remainder interest reaches the grantee the day the deed is delivered, long before anyone hands over a key. The form is configured for that split: one individual grantor, a life estate reserved for the grantor's own lifetime, and a remainder in fee simple in the named grantee.
Two estates out of one signature
General Laws Section 34-11-27 sets the measure of any Rhode Island conveyance. A deed passes the whole estate its maker held when it was signed, no words of inheritance needed, unless a different intention appears in the instrument. A reservation is exactly that different intention, printed on the face of the deed: the remainder departs, and a possessory freehold measured by the grantor's own life stays behind. Chapter 34-4 governs what results, with Section 34-4-2 supplying the construction rule for a grant for life followed by a remainder in fee and Section 34-4-11 treating future interests as interests in land that can themselves be conveyed. The grantee's remainder is a present interest with its possession postponed, not a hope of inheritance.
The power this deed leaves out
Rhode Island wrote an enhanced version of this arrangement into the statute books in 2014. Section 34-4-2.1 lets a grantor reserve a life estate coupled with the power, during the grantor's lifetime, to sell, convey, mortgage, or otherwise dispose of the real property without the consent or joinder of the remainder holders, and a conveyance exercising that power vests good title upon recording, free of those holders. This deed reserves nothing of the kind, and its operative section says so in as many words. The consequence surfaces in any later transaction: while the reserved estate lasts, a sale or mortgage of the entire fee is signed by the life tenant and the remainder holders together.
Quitclaim covenants attached to a remainder
A quitclaim deed in this state is a covenant instrument. Section 34-11-12 prints the statutory form with the phrase with quitclaim covenants, and Section 34-11-18 fills that phrase with a promise to warrant and defend against lawful claims of anyone claiming by, through, or under the grantor. Section 34-11-26 explains why the phrase carries such freight: in a deed here, the word grant implies no warranty at all. On this instrument the covenant travels with what is actually granted, the remainder interest.
What the form recites, and what it leaves to other structures
One grantor signs, personally and in an individual capacity, with the printed name line beneath the signature that Section 34-11-1.1 describes, and a single acknowledgment certificate carries the substance Section 34-12-1 sets out. Section 10 states how two or more remainder holders take among themselves, from the tenancy in common that Section 34-3-1 supplies by default to a joint tenancy declared in the deed. Section 11 holds terms the parties add, commonly the allocation of taxes, insurance, and repairs during the life estate. Arrangements reaching the land evidence records in this shape include a parent placing the family home in the next generation's names while keeping the right to live there. Configurations this deed does not print include two record owners conveying together, an entireties estate that under Cull v. Vadnais moves only with both spouses, a trustee or company on the granting side, and a life estate measured by somebody else's life.
At the town clerk's counter
Land evidence in Rhode Island is kept city by city and town by town, so one municipal clerk records this instrument. The grantee's address rides along for Section 34-11-1.2, and the sale price line answers Section 34-11-1.4 only where a sale produced the transfer, which a family life estate deed frequently did not; the conveyance tax line then carries the statement Section 44-25-1(c) contemplates. Nothing in the Section 44-25-2 exemption list turns on a deed reserving a life estate. Searchers reach the instrument as a life estate deed, a quit claim deed reserving a life estate, or a remainder deed.
The download holds three files: the blank deed as a fillable PDF, a completed example worked through a Coventry transfer that reserves a life estate for the grantor, and a plain language guide covering the thirteen numbered sections, the acknowledgment, the tax statements, and municipal recording. These materials describe Rhode Island law in general terms and are informational only; they are not legal advice.
Important: Your property must be located in Providence County to use these forms. Documents should be recorded at the office below.
This Quitclaim Deed (Reserving Life Estate) meets all recording requirements specific to Providence County.
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