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State deed guide

Missouri Deed Forms

Missouri commonly uses warranty deeds for many ordinary sale transfers and quitclaim deeds for selected no-warranty family, trust, divorce, entity, or title-clearing transfers.

Recommended for many Missouri sale transfers

Missouri Warranty Deed

A Missouri warranty deed path for transfers where broad title-warranty protection is intended.

Best fit
  • ordinary arm's-length sales
  • title-insurance and lender transactions
  • broad warranty treatment
Watch for
  • legal-description and grantee-mailing-address requirements are separate recording issues
  • homestead spouse-joinder may apply
View Missouri Warranty Deed
Available for selected no-warranty transfers

Missouri Quitclaim Deed

A no-warranty Missouri deed path often used for family, trust, divorce/title-clearing, entity, or other known-party transfers.

Best fit
  • family transfers
  • trust funding
  • title-clearing
  • divorce or entity transfers
Watch for
  • not the customary deed for many arm's-length sales
  • provides no deed warranty protection
  • homestead and manufactured-home issues may still apply
View Missouri Quitclaim Deed
Valid category, future-gated product

Missouri Grant Deed

Missouri grant-deed treatment can be valid, but the existing inactive product remains gated for page, fulfillment, and activation review before any public link.

Best fit
  • limited-covenant transfers with attorney or title support
Watch for
  • do not link the inactive Missouri grant-deed URL yet
  • future activation requires DB/product/page/fulfillment gates
Not currently offered for self-service
Not currently offered for self-service

Missouri Special Warranty Deed

Special or limited-warranty Missouri deed treatment is not currently available as a PublicLegal self-service product.

Best fit
  • limited-covenant transfers with attorney or title support
Watch for
  • use professional help for warranty-scope decisions today
Not currently offered for self-service
Not currently offered for self-service

Missouri Transfer-on-Death Deed

Missouri estate-planning deed paths are not currently available as PublicLegal self-service products in this router wave.

Best fit
  • estate-planning transfer at death with counsel
Watch for
  • use attorney review for beneficiary, trust, probate, survivorship, or estate-planning transfers
Not currently offered for self-service
Use attorney or title support

Specialty deed issues

Correction, easement, fiduciary, probate, manufactured-home, tax, capacity, title-defect, and other specialty deed issues require individualized help.

Watch for
  • use a lawyer, title company, lender, court, agency, or recorder path for specialty facts
Professional help recommended

Important Missouri recording notes

  • Missouri deeds need a complete legal description, acknowledgment, and one grantee mailing address for recording.
  • If the property is Missouri homestead, both spouses generally should join the conveyance.
  • An unaffixed manufactured home is not transferred by the land deed alone.
  • County recording fees still apply even when no separate deed transfer tax is due.
  • Grant, special-warranty, TOD, correction, easement, fiduciary, and other specialty paths remain gated unless separately approved.

How to choose

Ordinary sale or lender/title-insurance transaction

Missouri warranty deeds are the customary starting point when broad warranty protection is intended.

Family, trust, divorce, entity, or title-clearing transfer

A quitclaim deed may fit known-party transfers where no deed warranty is intended.

Limited-covenant or grant transfer

Missouri grant-deed treatment can be valid, but the inactive PublicLegal grant product remains future-gated and is not linked in this wave.

PublicLegal scope

Self-help scope

A self-help document you complete and record yourself — not legal advice and not a government-issued form.

Professional help

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