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Adding someone to your house deed requires the filing of a legal form known as a quitclaim deed. When executed and notarized, the quitclaim deed legally overrides the current deed to your home. By filing the quitclaim deed, you can add someone to the title of your home, in effect transferring a share of ownership.

Steps to fixing an incorrect deedDetermine if the error is harmless or fatal to the transfer of title.Decide what instrument is best suited to the error.Draft a corrective deed, affidavit, or new deed.Obtain the original signature(s) of the Grantor(s).Re-execute the deed with proper notarization and witnessing.More items...

A change made to your Title Deeds will be permanent and apply to all future owners of flats in your building. If you can all agree to a contractual change, then you should all agree to a permanent change while you can. You may not be able to get agreement in future after a new owner moves in.

Change your name. You must send HM Land Registry an application to change the register when you change your name. You do not have to pay anything to do this.

The Land Registry advise that processing times for updating the register (adding a mortgage or changing ownership) take about 4 to 6 weeks, and creating a new register (transfer of part or new lease) take about 6 to 9 months.

If you want to add someone's name onto your property title deeds, you'll need to follow a process known as Transfer of Equity. It's quite straightforward, but there can be hurdles along the way, so it's best to speak with one of our Conveyancing Solicitors who can guide you through the Transfer of Equity process.

If the need to correct or amend an original deed is discovered after it has been executed but before any application for registration has been made, the appropriate course is to arrange for the original deed to be altered so as to give effect to the parties' true intentions before an application is made for