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State deed guide

Florida Deed Forms

Florida deed selection should account for warranty scope, quitclaim limitations, enhanced life estate / Lady Bird planning, no-warranty fee-simple conveyances, special warranty treatment, two-witness execution, Clerk of the Circuit Court recording, documentary stamp tax, homestead spouse joinder, and whether a title company or Florida attorney should review the transfer.

Guided routing

Florida deed choice at a glance

Start with the transaction type, then review the deed-specific cautions before choosing a form. Florida deed selection can affect title warranties, signing requirements, recording practice, tax consequences, lender review, and post-death title clearing.

5 available paths
01
Available
Ordinary sale with broad warranty

Florida Warranty Deed

Use when broad warranty treatment is intended, subject to stated exceptions and title/lender review.

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02
Available
Limited warranty / commercial / REO / fiduciary-style transfer

Florida Special Warranty Deed

Use when limited warranty promises tied to the grantor are intended.

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03
Available, caution
No-warranty conveyance of fee simple title

Florida Fee Simple Deed

Use when title is being conveyed in fee simple but deed warranties are intentionally excluded.

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04
Available, caution
Release of possible interest only

Florida Quitclaim Deed

Use for selected known-party transfers where quitclaim/no-warranty treatment is specifically intended.

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05
Available, caution
Estate-planning enhanced life estate / Lady Bird planning

Florida Enhanced Life Estate / Lady Bird Deed

Use only after reviewing retained powers, beneficiaries, title, lender, Medicaid, tax, and homestead issues.

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06
Not offered
Statutory transfer at death

No Florida TOD deed product

Florida does not have a general statutory real-property TOD deed product path here; compare Lady Bird planning with counsel.

Compare Lady Bird planning with professional review
07
Recommended
Correction, easement, trustee, PR, guardian, disputed title, capacity, or lender-sensitive issue

Professional review

Use attorney, title-company, lender, tax, elder-law, court, fiduciary, or county recording-office support for specialty facts.

Use professional review before choosing or drafting this path.

Not sure which Florida deed to use?

Start with the intended legal effect. A Florida warranty deed, special warranty deed, fee simple no-warranty deed, quitclaim deed, and Lady Bird / enhanced life estate deed serve different purposes. Do not choose a quitclaim or Lady Bird deed merely because it sounds simple, and do not treat Lady Bird planning as a statutory transfer-on-death deed.

Available Florida deed forms

Recommended for many Florida sale transfers

Florida Warranty Deed

A Florida warranty deed path for transfers where broad warranty treatment is intended, subject to stated exceptions.

Best fit
  • ordinary arm's-length sales
  • title-insurance and lender transactions
  • broad warranty treatment
Watch for
  • two witnesses and notary acknowledgment are recording-critical
  • documentary stamp tax, homestead spouse joinder, lender, title-company, and legal-description issues require review
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$9.99 — instant download

Available for selected no-warranty transfers

Florida Quitclaim Deed

A Florida quitclaim deed path for selected known-party transfers where the grantor gives no title warranties and transfers only whatever interest the grantor has, if any.

Best fit
  • family transfers
  • divorce-related transfers
  • trust or entity transfers
  • title-clearing among known parties
Watch for
  • provides no deed warranty protection
  • not the same as a fee simple no-warranty deed
  • two-witness, homestead, tax, lender, and title-company requirements may still apply
View Florida Quitclaim Deed

$9.99 — instant download

Available estate-planning deed form

Florida Enhanced Life Estate / Lady Bird Deed

A Florida enhanced life estate / Lady Bird deed path for owners who want to retain lifetime powers while naming remainder beneficiaries for property still owned at death.

Best fit
  • enhanced life estate planning
  • owners comparing probate-avoidance deed options with counsel
  • adult natural-person beneficiary structures after review
Watch for
  • not a statutory transfer-on-death deed
  • Medicaid estate recovery, lender, homestead, tax, title-company, POA, beneficiary, and post-death title issues can be transaction-specific
View Florida Lady Bird Deed

$9.99 — instant download

Available no-warranty conveyance form

Florida Fee Simple Deed

A Florida fee simple deed path for no-warranty conveyances where fee simple title is being conveyed and deed warranties are intentionally excluded.

Best fit
  • no-warranty fee simple conveyances when that legal effect is intended
  • transactions where counsel or title review recommends this form over quitclaim treatment
Watch for
  • provides no deed warranties
  • not the same as a quitclaim deed
  • confirm tax, lender, title-company, homestead, and legal-description issues before signing
View Florida Fee Simple Deed

$9.99 — instant download

Available limited-warranty deed form

Florida Special Warranty Deed

A Florida special warranty deed path for transfers where limited warranty promises tied to the grantor are intended, subject to stated exceptions.

Best fit
  • limited-warranty transfers
  • commercial, REO, fiduciary, entity, or title-company-directed transactions when special warranty treatment is intended
Watch for
  • warranty scope is narrower than a general warranty deed
  • not the same as a no-warranty deed or quitclaim deed
  • confirm authority, exceptions, lender, title-company, homestead, and tax requirements before signing
View Florida Special Warranty Deed

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Other Florida deed situations

No general statutory Florida TOD deed path here

Florida Transfer-on-Death Deed

Florida does not have a general statutory real-property transfer-on-death deed product path here. Florida Lady Bird / enhanced life estate planning is a separate architecture and should be reviewed carefully.

Best fit
  • estate-planning comparison only
Watch for
  • do not treat Lady Bird deeds as statutory TOD deeds
  • use Florida attorney, title, elder-law, lender, and tax review for probate-avoidance planning
Compare Lady Bird planning with professional review
Not a separate Florida product path

Florida Grant Deed

Florida does not currently have an approved separate PublicLegal grant-deed product path; choose warranty, special warranty, fee simple no-warranty, quitclaim, or professional drafting based on intended legal effect.

Best fit
  • comparison only
Watch for
  • do not use the dormant grant-deed row as a live Florida product
  • warranty scope should be chosen expressly
Choose another Florida deed type
Use attorney or title support

Florida Other Specialty Deed

Correction, easement, trustee, personal representative, guardian, foreclosure, capacity, disputed-title, mineral, HOA, lender, and other specialty deed issues require individualized help.

Watch for
  • use a Florida lawyer, title company, lender, tax professional, elder-law counsel, court, fiduciary, or county recording-office path for specialty facts
Use professional drafting for these situations

Important Florida recording notes

  • Florida deeds are recorded with the Clerk of the Circuit Court / county recorder for the county where the real property is located; property in multiple counties can require recording in each county.
  • Florida deeds generally require the grantor to sign in the presence of two subscribing witnesses and to acknowledge the deed before a notary or other authorized officer.
  • Florida recording standards include first-page and later-page top-right blank-space requirements; do not remove or crowd the recording-space area when completing a deed.
  • Florida documentary stamp tax, mortgage surtax or intangible-tax issues, Miami-Dade treatment, recording fees, and exemption/consideration questions are separate from choosing the deed type.
  • Florida homestead, spouse joinder, title insurance, lender due-on-sale, HOA, trust, estate, Medicaid, and tax consequences can be fact-specific and may require professional review.
  • Florida does not have a general statutory real-property transfer-on-death deed product path here; Florida Lady Bird / enhanced life estate planning is a separate deed architecture with its own cautions.
  • Correction, easement, trustee, personal-representative, guardian, mineral, foreclosure, disputed-title, capacity, and other specialty deed issues are not currently offered here as separate Florida self-service products.

PublicLegal scope

Self-help scope

PublicLegal self-help guidance for customer-completed Florida deed forms — not legal advice or a substitute for Florida attorney, title-company, tax, lender, elder-law, or county recording-office review.

Professional help

This guide helps compare deed paths. It does not replace advice from a lawyer, title company, escrow professional, lender, court, or recorder.

Review status

Law and recording-practice review

Florida deed guide last revised: July 2, 2026.