Starr County Special Warranty Deed Form
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Starr County Special Warranty Deed Form
Fill in the blank Special Warranty Deed form formatted to comply with all Texas recording and content requirements.

Starr County Special Warranty Deed Guide
Line by line guide explaining every blank on the Special Warranty Deed form.

Starr County Completed Example of the Special Warranty Deed Document
Example of a properly completed Texas Special Warranty Deed document for reference.
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Where to Record Your Documents
Starr County Clerk
Rio Grande City, Texas 78582
Hours: 8:00am to 12:00 & 1:00 to 4:30pm M-F
Phone: (956) 716-4800 x8032
Recording Tips for Starr County:
- Check that your notary's commission hasn't expired
- Double-check legal descriptions match your existing deed
- Check margin requirements - usually 1-2 inches at top
- Recording fees may differ from what's posted online - verify current rates
- Multi-page documents may require additional fees per page
Cities and Jurisdictions in Starr County
Properties in any of these areas use Starr County forms:
- Delmita
- Falcon Heights
- Garciasville
- Grulla
- Rio Grande City
- Roma
- Salineno
- San Isidro
- Santa Elena
Hours, fees, requirements, and more for Starr County
How do I get my forms?
Forms are available for immediate download after payment. The Starr 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 Starr County?
Yes. Our form blanks are guaranteed to meet or exceed the applicable formatting requirements used for recording in Starr 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 Starr 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 Starr County?
Recording fees in Starr County vary. Contact the recorder's office at (956) 716-4800 x8032 for current fees.
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Texas prints exactly one statutory deed form, and it is a general warranty form. Property Code Section 5.022 sets that form out and then adds two sentences that do more work than the form itself: a covenant of warranty is not required in a conveyance, and the parties may insert any clause or use any form not in contravention of law. The Texas special warranty deed, also called a limited warranty deed, lives in the room those two sentences leave open. It keeps the statutory words of grant and the statutory habendum, and narrows one thing only, the covenant of title. This package prepares that deed in its base configuration, for natural persons signing in their own names.
What the Supreme Court of Texas settled about the limit
The phrase that defines the instrument is short: by, through, or under Grantor, but not otherwise. The Supreme Court of Texas read it in Chicago Title Insurance Co. v. Cochran Investments, Inc., 602 S.W.3d 895 (Tex. 2020), where a grantor who had bought at a foreclosure sale conveyed by special warranty deed and the foreclosure was afterward challenged in bankruptcy. The holding: the deed's plain language limits the grantor's liability for failures or defects of title to those resulting from persons claiming the property by, through, and under the grantor. The court declined to decide whether a special warranty deed implies the statutory covenant of seisin, since the limitation governed either way, and it turned aside the argument that reading the clause this way collapses the instrument into a quitclaim.
Where the narrowing happens, and where it does not
Not in the granting clause. This deed grants, sells, and conveys the Property itself, with the traditional habendum, because Texas sorts a true conveyance from a quitclaim by asking whether the words pass the property or only whatever right and interest the maker happens to hold, the test applied in Geodyne Energy Income Production Partnership v. Newton Corp., 161 S.W.3d 482 (Tex. 2005). The narrowing happens twice, both times inside the warranty. The express covenant to warrant and forever defend carries the by, through, or under qualifier. Then Section 5.023, which implies a prior non-conveyance covenant and a covenant against encumbrances whenever a deed uses the word grant or the word convey, is answered on its own terms: that section governs unless the conveyance expressly provides otherwise, and Section 8 of this form expressly provides otherwise, holding the implied covenants to the written covenant's scope.
One or two names on each side, nothing preprinted
The face of this form carries no marital status, no capacity, and no form of co-ownership. Section 1 takes one or two grantor names on open lines with whatever status wording the transaction carries. Section 2 takes one or two grantee names followed by the co-ownership designation the grantees take under, written in rather than picked from printed options, because Texas makes survivorship a matter of written agreement under Estates Code Section 111.001 and leaves two unqualified grantees as tenants in common. Execution follows the same shape: a block headed GRANTOR, a block headed SECOND GRANTOR (if applicable), and one acknowledgment certificate for each, so two signers may appear before different notaries on different days. A sole owner conveying alone leaves the second block and its certificate empty. Spouses conveying jointly managed community property, and a married owner conveying a homestead with the other spouse joining under Family Code Section 5.001, both present the two-signature pattern this deed accommodates.
At the recording counter
The deed is recorded with the county clerk of the county where the property is located, which Property Code Section 11.001 makes the condition of an effective record. The confidentiality notice required by Property Code Section 11.008 appears at the top of the first page. A mailing address for each grantee belongs in the instrument under Section 11.003, backed by a penalty filing fee rather than by refusal. Senate Bill 16 added a photo identification requirement at the recording counter for instruments filed in person on or after December 4, 2025. Texas collects no real estate transfer tax, so the deed and any exhibit page are the entire filing.
The download includes the blank deed as a fillable PDF, a completed example filled in on a Travis County fact pattern, and a plain language guide covering every numbered section, the co-ownership forms two grantees may take, the signing formalities, and recording. The materials are informational and are not legal advice.
Important: Your property must be located in Starr County to use these forms. Documents should be recorded at the office below.
This Special Warranty Deed meets all recording requirements specific to Starr County.
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The documents you receive here are guaranteed to meet or exceed the applicable Starr 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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August 13th, 2020
Not user friendly, and not an Adobe fan. The first page of Quitclaim Deed form cuts off the Parcel Identification line on the bottom. Also quite a few forms showed up to be downloaded , after I paid, so I was unsure if all the forms were part of the quitclaim package. I have adobe but was unable to locate the forms in adobe on my computer after I downloaded them. Just wanted to print out one quitclaim deed form, which would have taken less that 3 minutes. instead it took 97 minutes. Thank you, though, for having the form there.
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