Smith County Quitclaim Deed (Two Grantors) Form

Two grantors, two signature lines, one recorded release. This Tennessee quitclaim deed is configured for exactly two individual grantors who together give up whatever interest they hold in Tennessee real property, passing it to a single grantee in one instrument. A married couple deeding property out of their joint names, and two co-owners consolidating their combined shares under one name, present the pattern this deed recites.

Two releases riding one instrument

The form names two grantors, each an individual signing personally. It carries a signature block for each, with printed name and date lines, and a separate acknowledgment certificate for each grantor, so the two can appear before different notaries, in different counties or states, on different days, without re-executing anything. The receiving side stays open: the grantee section takes one new owner in the completed example, and the guide describes each co-ownership form Tennessee recognizes for grantees. The form is not set up as a sole-owner release or an entity conveyance; its recitals and certificates run to two natural persons conveying in their own right.

When the grantors are married to each other

The two-grantor pattern matters most between spouses. Tennessee spouses who took title together ordinarily hold as tenants by the entirety, a survivorship estate the Tennessee Supreme Court has held cannot be severed by either spouse acting alone during the marriage, so a release of the whole estate takes both signatures. The homestead statute points the same direction: under T.C.A. Section 26-2-301, where a marital relationship exists, the homestead exemption is not alienated or waived without the joint consent of the spouses, and a duly executed deed joined by both conveys the property free of the exemption. Both rules land in the same place on this form, its two signature blocks.

Released as it stands, taxed on what changed hands

The operative section tracks the short statutory quitclaim wording of T.C.A. Section 66-5-103(2): the grantors quitclaim to the grantee all of their interest in the described property, whatever that interest may be, without covenant or warranty of title. Keeping the statutory substance matters twice over. It defines what the grantee receives, the grantors' interest exactly as it stands, with mortgages, liens, and easements riding along. And it preserves the tax treatment of T.C.A. Section 67-4-409(a)(4), under which a deed in the quitclaim form conveying only the grantor's interest is taxed on what was actually paid, an amount the grantee or the grantee's agent swears to in the oath section the form carries; on a family transfer recited at ten dollars, that sworn number, not the county appraisal, drives the tax. Searchers reach this instrument as a quitclaim deed, a quit claim deed, or a quick claim deed; the register indexes it by its parties and its operative words either way.

Assembled for the register's intake

Tennessee registers check deed content before recording, and the form gathers each checked item in its own numbered section: the derivation of title recital identifying the recorded deed, will, or other source of the grantors' interest; the names and addresses of the new owner and of the party responsible for the property taxes; the assessor's parcel identification number; the source of the legal description; and the improved-property notation used in metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County, where the completed example is set. The preparer statement and the return address block close the final page. The example shows both grantors' certificates, the sworn consideration oath, and every numbered section completed for a Davidson County family transfer.

The download holds three pieces: the two-grantor quitclaim deed as a fillable PDF, the completed Davidson County example, and a plain language guide covering each numbered section, both notarizations, the oath, and recording with the county register of deeds. The materials describe Tennessee law generally and for information only; nothing in them is legal advice.