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State deed guide

Montana Deed Forms

Montana usually starts with a warranty deed for ordinary arm's-length sales, uses quitclaim deeds for selected no-warranty known-party transfers, and recognizes grant deeds as a valid limited-covenant alternative.

Recommended for many Montana sale transfers

Montana Warranty Deed

The customary Montana deed path for many ordinary sale, lender, title-insurance, and open-market transactions.

Best fit
  • ordinary arm's-length sales
  • title-insurance and lender transactions
  • broad warranty treatment
Watch for
  • Form RTC is a separate recording companion
  • homestead and water-rights facts may affect recording requirements
View Montana Warranty Deed
Available for selected no-warranty transfers

Montana Quitclaim Deed

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

Best fit
  • family transfers
  • trust funding
  • title-clearing
  • divorce-related transfers
Watch for
  • not the customary deed for arm's-length sales
  • provides no deed warranty protection
View Montana Quitclaim Deed
Valid limited-covenant alternative

Montana Grant Deed

A valid Montana limited-covenant deed under MCA § 70-20-304, useful when that narrower warranty scope is intended.

Best fit
  • limited-covenant transfers
  • commercial or known-party transactions where limited covenants are intended
Watch for
  • not the same as a full warranty deed
  • warranty deeds are customary for many arm's-length sale transactions
View Montana Grant Deed
Not currently offered for self-service

Montana Transfer-on-Death Deed

Montana recognizes transfer-on-death deeds as a separate estate-planning path, but PublicLegal does not currently offer a Montana TOD deed form.

Best fit
  • estate-planning transfer at death
Watch for
  • not an ordinary sale deed
  • estate-planning and creditor-claim facts should be reviewed carefully
Not currently offered for self-service
Not offered as a separate self-service product

Montana Limited / Special Warranty Deed

Limited or special warranty treatment overlaps with Montana grant-deed concepts, but PublicLegal does not currently offer a separate Montana special warranty deed.

Best fit
  • commercial, REO, fiduciary, and limited-covenant transfers with professional support
Watch for
  • use attorney, title, or escrow help for warranty-scope decisions today
Not currently offered for self-service
Use attorney or title support

Specialty deed issues

Probate, trustee, correction, easement, mineral, water-rights, foreclosure, capacity, tribal, and other specialty deed issues require individualized help.

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

Important Montana recording notes

  • Montana deed recordings require a Realty Transfer Certificate (Form RTC) to be filed with the county clerk and recorder.
  • Montana has no state or local real-property transfer tax, but county recording fees still apply.
  • A married person's homestead generally must be executed and acknowledged by both spouses; non-homestead or separate property can differ.
  • If water rights are divided, severed, reserved, or exempted, a DNRC Form 640 may also be required.
  • Ordinary Montana deeds require acknowledgment before a notary, not witnesses.

How to choose

Ordinary sale or lender/title-insurance transaction

Montana warranty deeds are the customary starting point for many ordinary sale transactions.

Family, trust, or title-clearing transfer

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

Limited-covenant transfer

A Montana grant deed can fit limited-covenant situations, but it is not the same as a full warranty deed.

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.