New York Revocation of Transfer-on-Death Deed

New York Revocation of Transfer on Death Deed — What This Package Is For

Use a New York revocation of transfer on death deed to revoke a previously recorded New York TOD deed before the owner's death.

This form revokes prior TOD transfers of the property by the signing owner. It is not a new beneficiary designation, not a lifetime conveyance, and not a way to revoke by will or by destroying the old deed.

What You Receive

• Editable deed form: Revocation-of-Transfer-on-Death-Deed-NY.docx, a Microsoft Word document prepared for customer completion and recording after appropriate review.
• Separate instructions and recording checklist: Revocation-of-Transfer-on-Death-Deed-NY-Instructions.docx, a Microsoft Word checklist covering completion, signing, acknowledgment, recording, transfer forms, and stop-condition issues. The instructions are separate so they are not accidentally recorded as part of the deed.

Key New York Signing and Recording Points

• New York deeds are recorded with the County Clerk in the county where the land is located. In Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens, recording is handled through the City Register / ACRIS system; Staten Island (Richmond County) records deeds with the Richmond County Clerk.
• A recordable deed generally needs an acknowledged grantor or transferor signature, a complete legal description attached as Exhibit A, a tax map / SBL or local parcel identifier where required, and legible black text suitable for optical imaging.
• Most present-transfer deeds require an online RP-5217 or RP-5217NYC transfer report and a TP-584 or TP-584-NYC transfer-tax return. Transfer-tax, exemption, nonresident withholding, LLC disclosure, mansion-tax, and local recording requirements are transaction-specific.
• New York does not treat co-op shares and proprietary leases as ordinary deeded real property. Use professional review for co-op, lender, title-insurance, fiduciary, probate, divorce, bankruptcy, capacity, tax, Medicaid, trust, entity, or disputed-title facts.
• The included instructions highlight the acknowledgment-sequence rule: the revocation must be acknowledged after the TOD deed being revoked and recorded before death.
• The statutory form includes witness lines; the instructions recommend using them while noting the separate statutory revocation conditions.

Common Uses

• owners canceling a previously recorded New York TOD deed
• joint owners revoking only after reviewing the all-living-joint-owners rule
• situations where the revocation will be acknowledged after the TOD deed and recorded before death

When to Stop Before Using This Form

Do not use this form if the owner wants to name a new beneficiary instead of revoking, the acknowledgment sequence is uncertain, joint-owner signatures are incomplete, the original TOD deed was recorded in multiple counties, or counsel should resolve capacity, title, tax, or family issues.