Washington County Quitclaim Deed Form

A Wisconsin quitclaim deed set up for one individual grantor carries a single grantor section, one signature line, one acknowledgment certificate for that signature, and a conditional spousal joinder block that serves exactly one statutory situation. This form prepares that deed under Wis. Stat. § 706.10(4) for a sole individual conveying an interest in Wisconsin real estate without warranty.

What a Wisconsin quitclaim deed passes

Under Wis. Stat. § 706.10(4), a quitclaim deed passes all of the interest in or appurtenant to the land described which the grantor could lawfully convey, and it neither warrants nor implies the existence, quantity, or quality of any interest. The grantee receives whatever the grantor holds at delivery, with no title covenants to enforce afterward. Searched for as a quitclaim deed or quit claim deed, the instrument appears throughout Wisconsin records in family transfers, conveyances implementing a divorce judgment, and title-clearing transactions, patterns in which the parties know each other and the warranty machinery of a purchase transaction has no work to do. Wisconsin's race-notice statute gives recording its force: an unrecorded conveyance is void as against a subsequent good faith purchaser for value whose conveyance is recorded first. Wis. Stat. § 706.08(1)(a).

One grantor, one certificate, and a homestead joinder line

The form provides for exactly one individual grantor of record, signing personally. The grantor section takes one name and mailing address, the operative section quitclaims the grantor's interest to the grantee, and one acknowledgment certificate in the Wis. Stat. § 140.16(1) short form serves the grantor's signature. Below the grantor's block sits a conditional spousal joinder line: under Wis. Stat. § 706.02(1)(f), a conveyance that alienates a married person's interest in homestead property is invalid unless each spouse signs or joins, except a conveyance directly between spouses. Where that rule applies, the spouse signs the joinder block and a second acknowledgment certificate serves that signature; where it does not, both remain blank.

Wisconsin's marital property system under ch. 766 sits behind that joinder line: spouses hold present undivided one-half interests in marital property, and management and control of titled property follows the form of title under Wis. Stat. § 766.51. The single-signature pattern belongs to an interest a person may convey alone, and the joinder line covers the homestead rule that reaches past the title form. The form is not set up as a two-grantor deed, an entity or trustee conveyance, or a transfer on death designation; each of those follows a different execution pattern than the single personal signature this deed carries.

The transfer return, the exemption line, and the flat fee

Wisconsin recording carries two money items. The recording fee is a flat $30 per document under Wis. Stat. § 59.43(2)(ag)1. The real estate transfer fee falls on the grantor at 30 cents per 100 dollars of value, and a Wisconsin electronic real estate transfer return, the eRETR, accompanies every conveyance offered for recording. Wis. Stat. § 77.22. An exempt transaction, including a qualifying family transfer under Wis. Stat. § 77.25(8), states the exemption on the face of the deed by subsection reference, and the deed carries a labeled blank for exactly that entry.

The document itself is built to Wisconsin's standard format under Wis. Stat. § 59.43(2m): a blank three inch by three inch recording area in the upper right of the first page, return information on the first page, a parcel identification number line for counties that require one, and the drafter statement of Wis. Stat. § 59.43(5)(a). Recent legislation also reaches the recording counter: 2025 Wisconsin Act 234 bars the register of deeds from recording a document reasonably believed to serve a fraudulent purpose and makes knowingly providing a forged conveyance document for recording a felony, and county notification systems under Wis. Stat. § 59.43(13) alert a subscribed owner after recording activity.

What the download contains

The download contains three pieces: the quitclaim deed as a fillable PDF, a completed example showing the document filled in for a Dane County fact pattern, and a plain language guide that walks through every blank, the signing and notarization rules, and the recording steps. The materials describe Wisconsin law in general terms and are informational; they are not legal advice.