Texas Warranty Deed
Use when broad warranty-and-defense treatment is intended, subject to stated exceptions.
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Texas deed selection should account for warranty scope, quitclaim limitations, transfer-on-death and Lady Bird planning, trust funding, correction instruments, heirship evidence, County Clerk recording, community-property and homestead rules, and whether a title company or Texas attorney should review the transfer.
Start with the transaction type, then review the deed-specific cautions before choosing a form. Texas deed selection can affect title warranties, signing requirements, recording practice, tax consequences, lender review, and post-death title clearing.
Use when broad warranty-and-defense treatment is intended, subject to stated exceptions.
Use when the grantor gives limited warranty promises tied to the grantor’s ownership period.
Use when title is still being conveyed but deed warranties are intentionally excluded.
Use only when quitclaim treatment is specifically intended and title-practice limitations are understood.
Use for the statutory Chapter 114 transfer-at-death path, not for an ordinary sale transfer.
Use for enhanced-life-estate planning after reviewing lender, Medicaid/MERP, tax, homestead, beneficiary, and title issues.
Use only for funding an already-created revocable trust after reviewing trustee vesting, qualifying-trust homestead, lender, title, and warranty issues.
Use only for nonmaterial Texas Property Code § 5.028 corrections; material corrections require professional review.
Use as deed-adjacent heirship evidence, not as a deed or probate substitute.
Use attorney, title-company, lender, tax, probate, or mineral-rights support for specialty facts.
Do not choose a quitclaim deed merely because you want a simple no-warranty transfer. Texas quitclaim deeds are recordable but often disfavored in title-insured or arm’s-length transactions. A Texas deed without warranty, special warranty deed, or attorney/title-company drafted deed may be more appropriate.
A Texas general warranty deed path for transfers where broad warranty-and-defense treatment is intended, subject to stated exceptions.
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A Texas quitclaim deed path for selected known-party transfers where the grantor releases only whatever interest the grantor may have and gives no title warranty.
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A Texas transfer-on-death deed is a statutory avoid-probate deed path that transfers real property at death instead of making a present sale transfer.
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A Texas Lady Bird deed / enhanced life estate deed path for owners who want to keep lifetime control while naming a remainder beneficiary for property still owned at death.
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A Texas revocable living trust funding deed path for owners conveying Texas real property into their own already-created revocable living trust, with title vested in the trustee.
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A Texas deed-without-warranty path for no-warranty transfers where title is still being conveyed and deed-without-warranty treatment is specifically intended.
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A Texas special warranty deed path for transfers where the grantor is giving limited warranty-and-defense promises tied to the grantor’s ownership period, subject to stated exceptions.
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A Texas correction instrument path for nonmaterial corrections under Texas Property Code § 5.028; the instrument corrects a recorded instrument and conveys nothing.
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A Texas affidavit-of-heirship path for sworn family-history and heirship facts used as real-property title evidence; it is not a deed and does not convey title.
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Texas does not generally use “grant deed” as a separate consumer deed-type label; choose a warranty deed, quitclaim deed, deed without warranty, or professional drafting based on the intended transfer and warranty scope.
Texas divorce, seller-financed, entity, mineral, easement, fiduciary, foreclosure, and other specialty deed situations are not currently offered here as self-service deed forms.
Material correction, fiduciary, probate, homestead, spouse-joinder, community-property, mineral, easement, foreclosure, seller-financing, non-routine trust, capacity, title-defect, and creditor issues require individualized help.