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Quitclaim deeds are most often used to transfer property between family members. Examples include when an owner gets married and wants to add a spouse's name to the title or deed, or when the owners divorce and one spouse's name is removed from the title or deed.

In California, the statute of limitations is five years. Any challenge to the quitclaim must be based on either a procedural error or on undo duress.

Disadvantages of Quitclaim Deeds A quitclaim deed is quick and easy because it transfers all of one person's interest in the property to another. However, a quitclaim doesn't make any guarantees about what that interest might be. The deed transfers all claims the seller has to the property, if any.

Quitclaims Are Taxable Events Unless the property goes to your spouse, quitclaiming is usually a taxable event and should be declared to the IRS using Form 709. Especially if you're passing a whole or part home ownership interest along to your adult children, the Internal Revenue Service is interested.

Other Names for California Quitclaim Deeds These two terms are interchangeable. Some people mistakenly use the term quick claim deed when referring to a quitclaim deed. That term is always incorrect. There is no such thing as a quick claim deed.

"Quitclaim deeds," "quit claim deeds" and "quick claim deeds" are the same thing. Their proper name is "quitclaim deed," but the confusion about the name is understandable, since, in essence, a person using a quitclaim deed is "quitting his claim" on a property very quickly!

The drawback, quite simply, is that quitclaim deeds offer the grantee/recipient no protection or guarantees whatsoever about the property or their ownership of it. Maybe the grantor did not own the property at all, or maybe they only had partial ownership.