Mellette County Quitclaim Deed (Two Grantors) Form

Two record owners, one instrument: this South Dakota quitclaim deed collects two grantors on a single form, gives each grantor a signature block and an acknowledgment certificate of that grantor's own, and passes their combined right, title, and interest to the grantee at delivery. The fillable form prepares a two-owner conveyance on the statutory quitclaim pattern of SDCL 43-25-7 for land anywhere in South Dakota, with a plain-language guide and a completed example alongside it.

Why a co-owned parcel calls for two grantors

A quitclaim reaches only the interest of the person who signs it. When title stands in two names, a deed signed by one co-owner moves one undivided share and leaves the other on the record, so a transfer of the whole parcel takes both owners' conveyances. This form performs both in one instrument: each grantor conveys and quitclaims all interest of that grantor in the described real estate, and the deed delivers the combined title the two of them hold at the date of the conveyance.

Marriage supplies the other reason two signatures appear together. Under SDCL 43-31-17, a conveyance of the homestead is valid only when both spouses, while residents of the state, concur in and sign the instrument, whichever spouse holds record title. A married couple deeding the home place therefore presents exactly the architecture this form recites: two grantors, each identified by name and marital status, each signing and acknowledging.

Two grantor blocks, two certificates

The form recites exactly two grantors, each entered with full legal name, marital status, and mailing address. The signature section carries a separate block for each grantor with a printed-name line beneath the signature, the detail SDCL 43-28-23 makes a format requirement, and two notary acknowledgment certificates follow, so the grantors may acknowledge on different days, before different officers, or in different states. Patterns that present two grantors in the record include a married couple conveying property held in both names, two siblings passing inherited undivided halves to a single relative, and joint tenants or tenants in common ending a co-ownership by deeding the whole parcel to one buyer. The grantee side stays open: the deed runs to a single grantee or to co-grantees, and the guide walks through South Dakota's tenancy-in-common default and the express joint tenancy declaration of SDCL 43-2-12. A conveyance by a sole owner, by three or more co-owners, or by an entity or trustee follows a different signing configuration than the two individual grantor blocks recited here.

What passes, and what is promised

Under SDCL 43-25-8, a statutory-form quitclaim passes the right, title, and interest each grantor holds in the premises when the conveyance is made; later-acquired title stays with the grantor unless the deed says otherwise, and this deed expressly says it passes none. The operative section also restricts and excludes, in capitalized express terms, the two narrow covenants SDCL 43-25-11 would otherwise imply from the quitclaim words, so the instrument is a true quitclaim: no covenant of title, no promise about encumbrances, simply whatever interest the two grantors hold.

At the register of deeds

The deed records in the county where the land lies for the statewide thirty dollar fee of SDCL 7-9-15. The realty transfer fee of SDCL 43-4-21, fifty cents per five hundred dollars of value, is paid before recording unless a SDCL 43-4-22 exemption applies, and the form's dedicated exemption section receives the recital county registers look for on the face of an exempt deed, with the subdivision number in parentheses. A certificate of real estate value on the Department of Revenue's form accompanies the deed as its own filing under SDCL 7-9-7. The document is built to the SDCL 43-28-23 statewide format: a three inch recording reserve topping page one with the return address and preparer blocks at its left edge, one inch margins, ten point minimum type, the grantee's mailing address, and both grantors' printed names under their signatures.

The purchase delivers three pieces: the blank two-grantor quitclaim deed as a fillable PDF, a completed example showing the form filled in for a Pennington County transfer by two co-owners, and a guide that explains every numbered section, the signing and notarization formalities, and the recording package. The materials are informational and are not legal advice.