For Property Owners
We help property owners with title changes/transfers. Common examples of this are intra-family transfers such as adding (or removing) a spouse, parent or child; estate planning deeds such as transfers to living trusts or life estate deeds; and corporate transfers such as parent and subsidiary deeds or LLC transfers. To help these clients, we need to research the current status of title to the property. We advise on how to make the desired title change as well as all of the costs involved. If a transfer tax exemption could apply, we assist the client in meeting it.
Pricing depends upon whether we’re preparing the deed only or providing full service. With full service, we prepare all of the paperwork and deal with all aspects of the recording process. Signing/notarization is not included in our full service pricing unless you come to one of our offices. We can coordinate remote in-person signing and even remote online notarization — for an additional fee.
Payment is handled through this site via our LawPay account. You pay into our trust account up front. You can easily and securely pay online by bank transfer, credit or debit card.
Get a no-obligation estimate for exactly how much your title change will cost by clicking the button below and completing a short form:
Title Change Request
For Title Companies
We also help title companies who need a MD or DC licensed attorney to prepare deeds for their transactions. This would be for purchase and sale transactions as well as for title changes. With these clients we simply prepare the deed as requested… the title company handles everything else.
Pricing for title companies is wholesale with flat-fee billing arranged in advance. Payment is due after settlement.
Title Company Request
More Information
Most people know that a deed is used to transfer real estate from a seller to a buyer in a purchase and sale transaction, but there are many other circumstances where a deed might be required:
- adding someone to title or removing someone from title
- transferring property to heirs as part of the administration of an estate
- moving property into a trust or out of a trust
- creating a life estate as part of an estate planning strategy
- transfers between a business and its shareholders or members, or between parent or subsidiary entities, or between predecessor and successor entities upon reorganization
- ground rent redemption deeds
- ground rent deeds
- updating record ownership due to the death of a joint owner
- transfers between spouses or former spouses
- intra-family transfers
- name change deeds
- tenancy change deeds
- title curative deeds
- confirmatory deeds
- tax sale deeds
- trustees deeds
- deeds in lieu of foreclosure
- more
In addition to deed prep we do offer a variety of document preparation services for sales, purchases and refinances including contracts, powers of attorney, loan documents and other real estate transaction-related documents and instruments.
