Cowlitz County Quitclaim Deed (Two Grantors) Form

Two grantors sign this Washington quitclaim deed, and the form is built in pairs to match: two grantor entries in its opening section, two signature lines with printed names and dates, and two acknowledgment certificates in the short form of RCW 42.45.140(1). This is the configuration that appears whenever two record owners release their interests in the same Washington real property through one instrument. The deed follows the statutory quitclaim form of RCW 64.04.050 and passes each grantor's present interest without covenant or warranty of title.

When Washington puts two signatures on one deed

Some two-grantor deeds are two co-owners acting in concert: cotenants who each hold an undivided share and pass both shares to a single grantee in one recording, rather than through two instruments with two sets of recording fees. Other pairs are created by statute. Community real property in Washington cannot be sold, conveyed, or encumbered by one spouse or one state registered domestic partner acting alone; under RCW 26.16.030(3) the other joins in executing the deed, and both acknowledge it. Homestead property carries a parallel rule in RCW 6.13.060, which calls for execution and acknowledgment by both spouses or both domestic partners no matter whose name the title stands in. The two-signer architecture of this form is the shape those statutes describe, on the quitclaim terms Washington practice reaches for when the work is releasing interests rather than selling with title assurances.

Two certificates, two notarizations

Each signature line on the form is paired with its own acknowledgment certificate, so the two grantors are free to acknowledge on different dates, in different counties, or before different notarial officers, and a notary completing either certificate finds a full venue, date, and name blank dedicated to that signer. Washington law does not require separate certificates; the RCW 42.45.140 short forms are written in the plural, so one certificate can name both signers when they appear together. The paired layout is how the form keeps a staggered signing from becoming a drafting problem. Execution itself stays simple: RCW 64.04.020 asks for a writing, the signatures of the parties bound, and acknowledgment, with no subscribing witnesses on a Washington deed.

A release measured at the moment of delivery

Because the operative words are the statutory conveys and quitclaims, the grantee takes all then existing legal and equitable rights of both grantors, and nothing more. Title a grantor acquires later stays with that grantor, since a quitclaim reaches after-acquired title only when the deed adds words expressing that intention, and this form adds none. That measured scope is why the instrument, often searched as a quit claim deed, suits record-cleanup work between people who already know each other's positions: two heirs consolidating inherited fractions in one relative, or co-owners ending a shared title without warranty exposure running between them.

The path across the recording counter

A Washington deed package makes two stops. The deed and a real estate excise tax affidavit go first to the county treasurer, because RCW 82.45.090 bars the county auditor from accepting a taxable conveyance until the treasurer verifies the tax as paid or not due; the auditor then records the deed and returns it to the name and address printed in the upper left of the first page. The form arrives ready for that counter: letter-size pages, a full 3 inch recording band, 12 point type over the 8 point statutory floor, and the first-page index content of RCW 65.04.045 in place, so the statutory recording surcharges and page fees are the only variables left to the county fee schedule.

What arrives in the download

The package holds the blank two-grantor quitclaim deed as a fillable PDF, a completed example filled in for a Spokane County fact pattern, and a plain-language guide covering every entry, the notarization, and the excise tax and recording steps. The materials describe Washington law in general terms and are not legal advice.