Livingston County Michigan Register of Deeds, Court House - 200 E. Grand River Ave., Howell, MI  48843  Mailing address - PO Box 197, Howell, MI  48844 Phone 517.546.0270 FAX 517.546.5966  Tract Phone 517.546.2530 Tract FAX 517.546.5966
 

Recording
Requirements

Make sure to check Document Requirements.

   2-1/2" margin at the top of the first page and 1/2" on remaining sides and additional pages.

Signatures must be original and names must be typed, stamped or printed beneath all written signatures.  MCLA 565.201 (a) (e)

  No discrepancy in the names shall exist between the printed names of such person, as appears, either in the signature, and the acknowledgment or jurat.  MCLA 565.201 (b)

  Instruments conveying or mortgaging any interest in real estate shall state the marital status of any male grantors.  MCLA 565.221

The address of grantee must appear on any instrument by which title to any interest therein is conveyed or, assigned. MCLA 565.201Sec 1 (d)

  The name and address of the person who drafted  the document must appear on the documents executed in Michigan.  MCLA 565.201 Sec 1a. 565.203

  Documents purporting to convey or encumber real estate executed in Michigan must have an acknowledgement by a notary public.  MCLA 565.8

   Effective 4/01/04 through 5/26/06 acknowledgement must state "Acting in the county of ______________" MCLA 55.287

  Documents must display on the first line of print on the first page, a single statement identifying the single recordable event that the instrument evidences. MCL 565.201 Sec.1(f)(ii); 565.201 Sec. 3

A certified copy of a death certificate or proof of death (a separate recordable event) must be recorded prior to the instrument of conveyance which states "survivor" in the grantor's section. MCL 565.48

  Court orders must be certified and sealed by the clerk of the court to be eligible for recording.  MCLA 565.401, 565.411

  The definition of a page.  See Document Requirements

  The date of the document must appear on it.

  You must indicate where the document is to be returned to on the document.

  If the property conveyed is unplatted, the following applies:  the grantor grants to the grantee the right to make ___ division(s)) under section 108 of the land division act, Act No. 288 of Public Acts of 1967.  (If no number is inserted, the right to make divisions stays with the portion of the parent tract retained by the grantor; if all of the parent tract is conveyed, then all divisions rights are granted.)

  This property may be located within the vicinity of farmland or a farm operation.  Generally accepted agricultural and management practices which may generate noise, dust, odors, and other associated conditions may be used and are protected by the Michigan right to farm act.

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Livingston County Register of Deeds
Court House
200 E. Grand River Avenue
Howell, MI 48843
Phone 517.546.0270  |  Tract Phone 517.546.2530
FAX 517.546.5966  |  Tract FAX 517.546.5966

Email: registerofdeeds@co.livingston.mi.us

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Last updated:  Tuesday, May 17, 2011 by: L. Coffman