Washington County Quitclaim Deed (Individual Grantor) Form

This Wisconsin quitclaim deed is drawn for one grantor, and it leaves that grantor's marital status to the grantor's own words. Section 1 takes a single name with whatever status follows it, Section 8 states in deed text that the grantor is one individual conveying in the grantor's own right, and a second signature block waits beneath the grantor's for one case: a married grantor conveying a homestead. On every other fill that block and its certificate stay empty.

A joinder block the deed switches on by its own terms

Under Wis. Stat. § 706.02(1)(f), a conveyance alienating any interest of a married person in a homestead, as § 706.01(7) defines it, is invalid unless signed or joined in by each spouse, a conveyance directly between spouses excepted. Section 8 prints that condition as part of the conveyance: if the Property includes the homestead of a married grantor, the grantor's spouse joins in or consents by signing below. The block labeled SPOUSE OF GRANTOR (IF JOINING) carries its own Wis. Stat. § 140.16(1) certificate, so a joining spouse may acknowledge on a different day or before a different notarial officer. An unmarried grantor, or a married grantor conveying land that is not the homestead, signs alone, as the completed example does.

Marital property in the background, title form in the foreground

Wis. Stat. § 766.31(3) gives each Wisconsin spouse a present undivided one-half interest in marital property, yet management and control follows the form of title under § 766.51: a spouse acts alone as to marital property held in that spouse's name alone, and § 766.51(8) keeps the homestead signature rule standing on its own. The single-signature pattern of this deed belongs to the interest an individual may convey alone; the conditional block belongs to the rule that reaches a spouse the record never names.

What the grantee takes

Wis. Stat. § 706.10(4) supplies the covenant arithmetic. A quitclaim deed passes all of the interest in or appurtenant to the land described which the grantor could lawfully convey, and it does not warrant or imply the existence, quantity, or quality of any such interest. The grantee stands where the grantor stood at delivery, liens and easements of record included, and Section 6 lists those matters as information only, under a printed sentence that the listing creates no covenant or warranty. Searched for as a quitclaim deed or a quit claim deed, the form appears in Wisconsin records where warranty covenants have no work to do: a sole owner selling to a buyer who takes title as it stands, a parent conveying a lot to an adult child, an owner passing an undivided interest to a co-owner.

The exemption line and the family schedule

The transfer fee of Wis. Stat. § 77.22(1) falls on the grantor at 30 cents for each $100 of value, and the electronic transfer return accompanies every conveyance offered for recording under § 706.05(12). Section 7 is where an exempt conveyance names its § 77.25 subsection, a recording condition under § 77.25(8m). A conveyance between parent and child for no consideration beyond assumed debt falls under § 77.25(8), which 2025 Wisconsin Act 38, effective November 1, 2025, extended to grandparents and grandchildren. A sale for a price, like the example's, pays the fee and writes None.

A record that reports back to the owner

2025 Wisconsin Act 234 reached the recording counter on April 10, 2026. Wis. Stat. § 59.43(2s)(e) now bars the register of deeds from recording a document reasonably believed to be recorded for a fraudulent or unlawful purpose, § 946.77 makes knowingly presenting a forged conveyance document for recording a Class I felony, and § 59.43(13) has a county that retains transfer fee moneys run a notification system that alerts a subscribed owner after recording activity on the owner's property or name. The page follows the standard document format of § 59.43(2m): the empty three inch square top right on page one, the document name within the top six inches, first page return information, a parcel number line, and the § 59.43(5)(a) drafting statement. The recording fee is $30 per document under § 59.43(2)(ag)1.

The download holds three files: the deed as a fillable PDF, a completed example filled in for a Dane County conveyance in Madison by an unmarried grantor, and a plain language guide to every blank, the signing and notarization rules, and recording. The materials describe Wisconsin law in general terms for information and are not legal advice.