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In order to change any information in a Deed, a new Deed has to be prepared. One of the questions this office is most frequently asked is how to remove the name of a deceased person from the deed to property. Unfortunately, this is not a process that can be accomplished by merely providing a death certificate.

Similarly, to add someone to a deed a new deed must be prepared to transfer the property from all current owners to all new and current owners. The new deed must then be recorded in land records. You can read about the steps to record a new deed at the People's Law Library.

Can someone sell a house if your name is on the deed? If your name is on the deed as a co-owner, joint tenant, or tenant in common, the other owner(s) generally have the legal right to sell the house without your consent.

For a deed to be valid, it must contain several essential elements, including the operative words of conveyance, description of the property, signatures, delivery, proper formatting and execution, absence of defects and encumbrances, legal capacity of parties, proper recording, and voluntary execution.

In conclusion, all of the options listed (lack of consideration, absence of grantor's signature, omission of legal description, failure to notarize the document) could potentially cause a grant deed to be invalid at its inception. Each of these factors plays a critical role in the validity and enforceability of a deed.

Other requirements are: That the grantor(s) be legally competent to execute a deed; That the deed convey title to real property; That it contain the legibly written names of all grantors and grantees; That it identify the property by its address and legal description; That it be signed by the grantor;

Maryland Real Property §3-104(f)(1) requires an attorney to certify that any deed, mortgage or deed of trust has been prepared by an attorney or under an attorney's supervision, or a certification that the instrument was prepared by one of the parties named in the instrument, in order to record the instrument.

If you wish to change your name or remove a name on your property record, due to marriage, divorce, death of an owner, etc., a new deed must be filed with the local Land Records office where the property is located. You can not change a deed to a property through the Assessment office.

As a prerequisite to recording, quitclaim deeds must be endorsed with the certificate of the collector of taxes of the county where the property is assessed. Quitclaim deeds must be signed by the grantor in the presence of a notary public. Witnesses are not required for conveyances of real estate in Maryland.