The Boston Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a warning in April about an unprecedented increase in quitclaim deed fraud. A quitclaim deed is a legal document that transfers ...

A quitclaim deed is a legal document that transfers ownership of a real estate property from one party to another. A quitclaim deed doesn't guarantee that the grantor or signer has any right to the ...

Daughter Tangie Harris couldn't believe it: how could her mother sign a document and sell the family in 2025— when she died in 2014?

Quit using quitclaim deeds. These little gems are the bane of title insurance companies and lawyers everywhere. A quitclaim deed is a document where the grantor uses words such as “remise, release and ...

Question: I have another question about quitclaim deeds. My wife owned a house prior to our marriage. After we got married, she filed a quitclaim deed to add me as a co-owner to the house. Is this ...

Cuyahoga County is poised to become the first county in the nation to install two-factor authentication software for its recorded documents, as a way to help prevent fraudulent property transfers.

A judge ruled that one woman’s Dayton property was stolen from her through quitclaim fraud, but the judge decided she won’t get the building back because the people who bought it from the alleged ...

An 89-year-old woman nearly lost her home in a quitclaim deed scam. Now, the man accused of trying to sell the home that wasn ...

A quitclaim deed, sometimes referred to as a non-warranty deed, is a document used to transfer interest in a property. Common terms utilized alongside quitclaim deeds are “grantor” and “grantee.” In ...

What is a quitclaim deed? It's a legal document that transfers any ownership claim, interest, right or title a person or entity may have in a property to someone else. In effect, it releases (or quits ...

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