Everything You Should Know About a New Jersey Property Deed in 2025
Category: On Demand
Member Price: $184
Non-Member Price: $230
Product Code: ON152625
Areas of Law: Real Estate
CLE Credits
| NJ CLE: | NJ CLE information: This program has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 2.4 hours of total CLE credit (Full Credits Available: NJ General: 2.4, NJ New Admit Real Estate: 2.4). |
| NY CLE (t&nt): | NY Professional Practice Transitional: 2.0 |
| PA CLE: | PA Substantive Credit: 2.0
New: No PACLE fee is required for this program. To earn PA CLE credits, a valid PA Bar ID number must be entered into the CLE form provided after attending the program. |
Faculty
Keynote
Moderator
Presenters
- Carolina T. Curbelo, Esq.
- The Law Office of Carolina T. Curbelo, LLC, Ridgewood
- Laura M. Fisher, Esq.
- Law Office of Laura M. Fisher, LLC, Jersey City
Property deeds are an essential legal document when buying and selling a home in New Jersey. However, there is no such thing as a generic deed. Attorneys must take care that the deed language conveys the property to the parties as intended by the buyer and the seller.
Join us for an in-depth look at important items to ensure a smooth transfer of title – what a deed should contain, where and when it is recorded and common pitfalls that arise when a deed is improperly drafted or recorded.
Topics to be discussed include:
- Types of deeds- which deed for which situation?
- Quitclaim, bargain and sale, warranty deeds, deeds in lieu of foreclosure - Statutory requirements
- Does a deed need to be in writing?
- Requirements for preparation
- Types of clauses in a property deed
- New Jersey Recording Act and the Statute of Frauds
- Who is taking title and in what form? - The important distinctions
-Tenants in common, joint tenants, tenants by the entirety - What should I do if the deed was not registered?
- Pitfalls and safeguards
- Quit claim deeds- are they the end all or be all?
- Transferring to an LLC
- Identity of parties
- Signatures and remote notarization
- Fraudulent deed transfers, especially vacant land
- Bargain and sale deeds without covenants - And more