Douglas County Quitclaim Deed (Two Grantors) Form

A Wisconsin quitclaim deed configured for two grantors puts both record owners into one instrument: two grantor blocks, two personal signature lines, and an acknowledgment certificate for each signer, so one recorded document moves both interests to the grantee at the same time. This form prepares that two grantor conveyance of Wisconsin real estate, each owner passing whatever interest that owner holds, without warranty.

Two grantors, one recorded conveyance

The form recites exactly two grantors of record, each an individual signing personally. Two heirs passing inherited fractional interests to a single relative, co-owners consolidating scattered interests after an estate settles, and a married couple conveying property titled in both names present the pattern this deed recites. The grantee side stays flexible: a single grantee takes sole ownership, and two or more grantees may state a recognized Wisconsin co-ownership form, such as joint tenancy or survivorship marital property, following their names in the grantee section.

The deed is not set up as a sole owner conveyance, an entity or trustee deed, or an instrument for three or more grantors; each of those carries a different execution pattern than the two personal signatures here. Below the grantor signatures sit two conditional spousal joinder blocks, one for each grantor, tied to the homestead signature rule described below; a block that does not apply remains blank.

A conveyance without warranty

Wis. Stat. § 706.10(4) supplies the quitclaim effect: each grantor's lawful interest passes to the grantee, and the deed neither warrants nor implies that any interest exists. Customers reach the instrument under both spellings, quitclaim deed and quit claim deed, and Wisconsin treats them as the same instrument. The two grantor version turns up where the parties already know the title's history, in estate settlements, family rearrangements of ownership, and co-owner buyouts that call for both owners' signatures on a single document.

Priority runs on recording order. Under the race notice rule of Wis. Stat. § 706.08(1)(a), a conveyance left unrecorded loses to a later good faith purchase for value that reaches the record first, so a two grantor deed ordinarily travels to the register of deeds promptly after the second signature.

Marital property and the two-signature title

Wisconsin classifies most property of married couples as marital property under ch. 766, a community property system in which each spouse owns a present undivided one half interest. Control of titled real estate follows the title form under Wis. Stat. § 766.51: real estate held in the names of both spouses, other than in the alternative, may be conveyed only by both spouses acting together. A two grantor quitclaim deed is the shape that statute expects when a both names title moves.

The homestead rule reaches beyond the title form. Wis. Stat. § 706.02(1)(f) makes a conveyance alienating a married person's homestead interest invalid without each spouse's signature or joinder, apart from conveyances directly between spouses. Two married grantors conveying their own homestead carry the rule with their own two signatures; a grantor married to someone outside the title uses that grantor's joinder block, and a dedicated certificate serves the joining signature.

The recording package in Wisconsin

Recording carries a flat $30 charge for the deed itself, set statewide by Wis. Stat. § 59.43(2)(ag)1, and a real estate transfer fee that falls on the grantors at 30 cents per $100 of value through the state's electronic transfer return, the eRETR. A qualifying family conveyance for no consideration claims its exemption on the deed's face by subsection reference to Wis. Stat. § 77.25, on the labeled line the form provides; nearly every exempt conveyance still files the return, since Wis. Stat. § 77.255 excuses only two narrow exemption classes from the eRETR itself.

The document is drawn to the standard format of Wis. Stat. § 59.43(2m), with the blank three inch square recording area at the first page's upper right corner, return information and the drafter statement on the first page, and a parcel number line for counties that require one.

What the purchase delivers

The download delivers the two grantor quitclaim deed as a fillable PDF, a completed example filled in for a Waukesha County transfer from two parents to their daughter, and a plain language guide to each blank, the signing and notarization rules, and the recording steps. The materials describe Wisconsin statutes in general terms; they are informational only and are not legal advice.