Legal Question in Real Estate Law in California

Hello,

I was looking in public records (deeds). What does it mean when the grantors and the grantees are the same people. Sometime s the grantors will be a married couple wwith the grantee being one of them. Other times the same two names are listed with an addition of a third name which is the wifes maiden name. Those 3 names appear with different spelling, with middle initial or without. Is their a reason for this? The couple is married. Is there legal requiements that each person named should be a different person. There are pages of activity using almost every combination of there names. This causes these names to be found in different places. Any ideas?

Thanks


Asked on 2/06/13, 3:45 am

2 Answers from Attorneys
Anthony Roach Law Office of Anthony A. Roach

Without looking at specifics, it usually means that either married people are granting the property to each other, or into a trust. It's not illegal.

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Answered on 2/06/13, 7:12 am
Bryan Whipple Bryan R. R. Whipple, Attorney at Law

As Mr. Roach says, this is done for any of several reasons, all perfectly legal, proper and sometimes necessary. Among the reasons are (a) correction of a mild error in the record; (b) change in the way the owners hold title, e.g. John Doe and Mary Doe as joint tenants to John Doe and Mary Doe as tenants in common; (c) conveyance into a living trust for estate-planning purposes; and (d) removing one of several owners due to a buy-out, divorce, etc.;

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Answered on 2/06/13, 7:57 am


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