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What Is the Cost to File a Kansas Deed? Kansas register-of-deeds offices charge $21.00 to record a deed's first page and $17.00 each for other pages. The cost includes the legal recording fee and amounts planned to go to the register of deeds technology fund.

A Kansas deed is filed with the register of deeds for the county where the real estate is located. When receiving a deed, the register of deeds records and indexes the deed by date, party names, type of document, volume-and-page number, and property description.

Once a document has been filed in this office, the document itself will not be changed ? in order to transfer the property you will have to have a new deed prepared. To avoid future legal problems, we recommend that you have an abstractor or an attorney do this for you.

The current property owner with the right to transfer the property must sign a Kansas deed. A deed that transfers a co-owned property should include the signatures of both owners. A lawful agent or attorney who can act on the owner's behalf may sign a deed for the owner.

This article from an ABA Journal, explains the options provided by a Transfer on Death Deed. Kansas is one of only nine states that allows this option.

A purchase agreement is the final document used to transfer a property from the seller to the buyer, while a purchase and sale agreement specifies the terms of the transaction. Parties will sign a purchase agreement after both parties have complied with the terms of the purchase and sale agreement.