![]() Titles with quitclaims (or documents potentiallyĬonstrued as quitclaims) in the record can now be confidently assessed.Question marks for future buyers, lenders, and title companies that depend onįor deeds recorded in the property’s county, from SeptemberĢ021 on, here is what happens when the four years in the statute of limitations Quitclaim’s recording date, or they are time-barred. Third-partyĬhallenges to ownership based on quitclaim must occur in four years from the Itĭoes not constitute complete good faith protection, but it does support laterīuyers, lenders, and title insurers by creating clear limits. The resulting amendment to Texas property law was SB 885. Longer deemed to have “notice” of unrecorded transactions. The recording of a quitclaim, a lender or a potential buyer is protected, and no Wisely, TLTA put forth a specific solution. Quitclaimed properties who receive them in good faith, without notice ofĬompeting, unrecorded claims of ownership. ![]() To firm up property conveyances in Texas, TLTA pressed forĪn amendment to extend bona fide purchaser status to later owners of formerly Title where the parties had not intended to create uncertainty. Trend has resulted in fuzzier title transfers, with quitclaims in chains of When spotting language that transfers the grantor’s interest only. Texas courts have tended to find quitclaims The courts have, more and more, looked at the language in property deeds andĭetermined them to be quitclaims. The issue became continually more urgent, according to TLTA. Texas quitclaim could, in due time, be removed from chains of title. The state to enact a quitclaim statute of limitations, so the uncertainty of a Frustrated by uninsurable titles, the Association asked One big driver of this legal milestone was the Texas Land Is a Quiet Title Action ? Title Industry Leads on Law ☛ How do owners clear a title that might be clouded by unrecorded Home, would be to undertake the expensive legal hassle of a quiet title action. The only way to make the title insurable, and thereby market the “The root of the problem is a single section of the Texas property code, which essentially states that unrecorded title transfers in the past are binding to subsequent purchasers,” one Texas attorney has observed, who adds that quitclaim deeds in Texas would be “seen as red flags to potential buyers.”Īnd that negative effect would just stay in the chain of Situations, Texas attorneys have, even in these cases, suggested warranty deeds While quitclaim deeds are common in most states in such Outside of Texas often use quitclaim deeds between divorcing spouses, family What about quitclaims between related people? Homeowners Quitclaims, and attorneys in Texas have generally cautioned against using them. Would be “on notice” of doubts about the interest being conveyed.Ī quitclaim in the chain of title can rule out a Texas In Texas, though, while a quitclaim is valid, the document flagsĭoubts about what interest the grantor had. Good faith and without knowledge of competing claims, does take precedence over Other than Texas, a rule has prevailed that a quitclaim, recorded by a buyer in This means the holder of a quitclaim deedĬannot prove title to the property by the document alone. (person transferring the document) owned - no more, no less, and with no In general, the recipient of a quitclaim gets whatever the grantor Why the Four-Year Statute of Limitations Matters Legally claim good faith purchaser status. What does this meanįor buyers of real estate with a quitclaim in the chain of title? The buyer can ![]() No knowledge of other unrecorded claims on the property. Once a quitclaim deed is recorded in the property’s county,Ī later purchaser or lender has good-faith protection, as long as the party has Statute of limitations for competing claims. TitleĬompanies will be able to consider buyers who accepted and recorded quitclaims asīona fide purchasers after four years. Quitclaim deed to transfer title from one owner to the next will be easier. Texas Property Code, to take effect on Sep. In May, a bill was signed into law to amend Chapter 13 of the
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