Legal Question in Real Estate Law in New Mexico

use warranty deed to add owner?

A widowed, unmarried person owning property as an individual wishes to add

her daughter to the deed of her house in New Mexico. Is the correct form to be

recorded a Warrantee Deed? If so, is the mother the grantor and the mother and

daughter both the grantees, as joint tenants with rights of survivorship? Is there

a simpler or preferable way to add an owner, making the new owner a joint

tenant?


Asked on 7/11/05, 3:33 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys

Len Foy NH Residential Title & Escrow

Re: use warranty deed to add owner?

Hi - I'm not sure how New Mexico law might be different from the laws of New Hampshire and Massachusetts, but typically when we're adding people to title (like a son or a daughter, for an estate planning reason), it's a quitclaim deed and not a warranty deed.

Feel free to contact my office at (603) 434-3437 and we can look into this for you -

Regards -

Leonard W. Foy III, Esquire

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Answered on 7/17/05, 1:08 pm


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