Washington County Quitclaim Deed (Corrective) Form
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Washington County Quitclaim Deed (Corrective) Form
Fill in the blank Quitclaim Deed (Corrective) form formatted to comply with all Vermont recording and content requirements.
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Where to Record Your Documents
City of Barre: Clerk
Barre, Vermont 05641
Hours: Mo-Fr 7:30 to 4:30
Phone: (802) 476-0242
Town of Barre: Clerk
Websterville, Vermont 05678
Hours: Mo-Fr 8:00 to 4:30
Phone: (802) 479-9391/9392
Town Clerk of Berlin
Berlin, Vermont 05602
Hours: Mo-Th 8:30 to 3:30
Phone: (802) 229-9298
Town Clerk of Cabot
Cabot, Vermont 05647
Hours: Mo-Th 9:00 to 5:00
Phone: (802) 563-2279
Town Clerk of Calais
East Calais, Vermont 05650
Hours: Mo-Th 8:00 to 4:00
Phone: (802) 456-8720
Town Clerk of Duxbury
Duxbury, Vermont 05676
Hours: Tu-Fr 7:30 to 3:30
Phone: (802) 244-6660
Clerk of East Montpelier
East Montpelier, Vermont 05651-0157
Hours: Mo-Th 9:00 to 5:00; Fr 9:00 to noon
Phone: (802) 223-3313 x201
Town Clerk of Fayston
North Fayston, Vermont 05660
Hours: Mo-Th 9:00 to 3:30 & Fr 9:00 to 3:00
Phone: (802) 496-2454 x21
Town Clerk of Marshfield
Marshfield, Vermont 05658
Hours: Tu-Fr 8:00 to 12:00 & 12:30 to 4:00
Phone: (802) 426-3305
Town Clerk of Middlesex
Middlesex, Vermont 05602
Hours: Mo-Th 8:30 to 4:30
Phone: (802) 223-5915
City of Montpelier: Clerk
Montpelier, Vermont 05602
Hours: Mo-Fr 8:00 to 4:30
Phone: (802) 223-9500
Town Clerk of Moretown
Waterbury, Vermont 05676
Hours: Mo-Fr 7:00 to 2:45
Phone: (802) 882-8218
Town Clerk of Northfield
Northfield, Vermont 05663
Hours: Mo-Fr 8:00 to 4:30
Phone: (802) 485-5421
Town of Plainfield
Plainfield, Vermont 05667
Hours: Mo, We, Fr 7:30 to 12:00 & 12:30 to 4:00
Phone: (802) 454-8461
Town Clerk of Roxbury
Roxbury, Vermont 05669
Hours: Tu-Fr 9:00 to 12:00 & 1:00 to 4:00
Phone: (802) 485-7840
Town Clerk of Waitsfield
Waitsfield, Vermont 05673
Hours: Mo-Fr 8:00 to 4:30
Phone: (802) 496-2218
Town Clerk of Warren
Warren, Vermont 05674
Hours: Mo-Fr 9:00 to 4:30
Phone: (802) 496-2709 x21
Town Clerk of Waterbury
Waterbury, Vermont 05676
Hours: Mo-Fr 8:00 to 4:30
Phone: (802) 244-8447
Town Clerk of Woodbury
Woodbury, Vermont 05681
Hours: Mo-Th 9:00 to 1:00 & Mo 6:00 to 8:00
Phone: (802) 456-7051
Town Clerk of Worcester
Worcester, Vermont 05682
Hours: Mo 9:00 to 12:00; Tu-Th 9:00 to 3:00; We to 5:00
Phone: (802) 223-6942
Recording Tips for Washington County:
- Verify all names are spelled correctly before recording
- Double-check legal descriptions match your existing deed
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Cities and Jurisdictions in Washington County
Properties in any of these areas use Washington County forms:
- Adamant
- Barre
- Cabot
- Calais
- East Barre
- East Calais
- East Montpelier
- Graniteville
- Marshfield
- Montpelier
- Moretown
- North Montpelier
- Northfield
- Northfield Falls
- Plainfield
- South Barre
- Waitsfield
- Warren
- Waterbury
- Waterbury Center
- Websterville
- Woodbury
- Worcester
Hours, fees, requirements, and more for Washington County
How do I get my forms?
Forms are available for immediate download after payment. The Washington 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 Washington County?
Yes. Our form blanks are guaranteed to meet or exceed the applicable formatting requirements used for recording in Washington 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 Washington 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 Washington County?
Recording fees in Washington County vary. Contact the recorder's office at (802) 476-0242 for current fees.
Questions answered? Let's get started!
The subject of this deed is another deed. A numbered section identifies a conveyance already recorded in a Vermont town's land records by instrument title, date, and book and page; the next section states the error that slipped into it and the information that corrects it; and the operative text confirms everything else the recorded deed did. This is a Vermont quitclaim deed in its corrective configuration, the instrument searchers reach as a correction deed, corrective deed, or confirmatory deed, and under the quit claim and quick claim spellings.
Two deeds on the record, read as one
A recorded deed does not come off the record; the correction goes on beside it. The grantor of the prior deed signs again, the form states the error and the corrected information, and the operative section remises, releases, and forever quitclaims whatever right, title, and interest the grantor holds while confirming and ratifying the prior deed except as corrected. No Vermont statute implies covenants into a quitclaim, so the instrument promises nothing about the title; it repairs the paperwork, not the bargain. An examiner running the chain finds both instruments in the same municipal index and reads them together as one conveyance.
What a correction deed can reach in Vermont
No Vermont statute prescribes a correction procedure for recorded deeds; the boundary comes from Vermont Title Standard 4.1. A grantor who conveyed by an effective, unambiguous deed cannot, by a later deed, substantially change the grantee's name, shrink the premises or the estate, add a condition, or otherwise diminish the prior grant, and a deed that tries does not impair the title the prior deed established. The corrections that live comfortably inside the standard are the clerical ones: a transposed lot number, a misspelled or incomplete name, a wrong book and page in the derivation clause, a dropped plan reference. For a material change, the standard's comment describes a conveyance back from the grantee before the grantor deeds again; this form recites the standard's limits in its operative section, so the record shows the deed staying inside them.
One grantor, signing a second time
The form recites exactly one grantor, the grantor named in the prior deed. Twelve numbered sections run from the parties through the prior-deed identification, the error and its correction, consideration, and the corrected legal description to the conveyance-and-confirmation section, followed by one grantor signature block and one acknowledgment certificate in Vermont's statutory short form wording. A conditional homestead joinder under 27 V.S.A. section 141 waits ahead of the signature blocks with its own spouse entry, signature line, and second certificate, used only when the property is the homestead of a married grantor. A lot number transposed in the description, a grantee's name recorded with a missing initial, and a derivation clause citing the wrong book and page present the pattern this deed recites. The form is not set up as a first conveyance of the property, as an instrument diminishing what the prior deed granted, or as a correction of a deed signed in a representative capacity; each of those follows a different architecture.
Exemption 04, and a return filed at zero tax
The finished correction records in the same clerk's office that holds the deed it corrects, Vermont keeping land records by municipality, at the statewide $15 per page. The transfer tax paperwork travels with it even though a correction ordinarily owes nothing: 32 V.S.A. section 9608 bars the clerk from recording a deed evidencing a transfer until a completed Property Transfer Tax Return, Form PTT-172, and its Act 250 certificate are in hand, and 32 V.S.A. section 9603(4) exempts transfers that, without additional consideration, confirm or correct a transfer previously recorded, claimed by its number on the return. Where a purported correction moves additional value, the exemption's condition fails and the ordinary rate of 1.25 percent plus the 0.22 percent clean water surcharge reaches it.
What the download contains
The corrective quitclaim deed arrives as a fillable PDF whose first page is a non-recorded instructions sheet, alongside a completed example prepared on a Brattleboro, Windham County record in which a grantor corrects a transposed lot number in a deed to her son, and a plain language guide that treats the twelve numbered sections, the ways a grantee may hold Vermont title, the title-standard limits, notarization, and the path through the transfer tax return to the clerk's counter. The materials describe Vermont law in general terms and are not legal advice.
Important: Your property must be located in Washington County to use these forms. Documents should be recorded at the office below.
This Quitclaim Deed (Corrective) meets all recording requirements specific to Washington County.
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