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California usually uses a grant deed for ordinary transfers, a quitclaim deed for no-warranty family, trust, divorce, or title-clearing transfers, and the statutory revocable transfer-on-death deed for probate-avoidance transfers at death.
The usual California deed path for ordinary transfers, with limited statutory covenants under California law.
Often used for family transfers, trust funding, divorce/title-clearing, and other situations where no warranty is intended.
California generally uses grant deeds for the limited-covenant role that many states handle through warranty concepts.
The California revocable transfer-on-death deed follows the mandatory Prob. Code § 5642 statutory form: two witnesses, notary acknowledgment, and recording within 60 days of notarization.
Correction, easement, fiduciary, mineral, water, foreclosure, capacity, and similar specialty deed issues should not be handled as routine self-help purchases.