Fill and Sign the Warranty Deed for Separate or Joint Property to Joint Tenancy Illinois Form

Prepared by U.S. Legal Forms, Inc. Copyright 2016 - U.S. Legal Forms, Inc. STATE OF ILLINOIS WARRANTY DEED [Separate Property or Joint Property to Joint Tenancy] Control Number – IL - SDEED - 4 NOTE ABOUT COMPLETING THE FORMS The forms in this packet contain “form fields” created using Microsoft Word. “Form fields” facilitate completion of the forms using your computer. They do not limit you ability to print the form “in blank” and complete with a typewriter or by hand. If you do not see the gray shaded form fields, go the View menu, click on Toolbars, and then select Forms. This will open the forms toolbar. Look for the button on the forms toolbar that resembles a shaded letter “a”. Click in this button and the form fields will be visible. The forms are locked which means that the content of the forms cannot be changed. You can only fill in the information in the fields. If you need to make any changes in the body of the form, it is necessary for you “unlock” or “unprotect” the form. 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Real Estate Transfer Declaration can be completed and printed online at: https://www.revenue.state.il.us/RETD/ 2. See the following for a listing of the exemptions to the Illinois Transfer Tax on real estate transactions: (35 ILCS 200/31-45) Sec. 31-45. Exemptions. The following deeds or trust documents shall be exempt from the provisions of this Article except as provided in this Section: (a) Deeds representing real estate transfers made before January 1, 1968, but recorded after that date and trust documents executed before January 1, 1986, but recorded after that date. (b) Deeds to or trust documents relating to (1) property acquired by any governmental body or from any governmental body, (2) property or interests transferred between governmental bodies, or (3) property acquired by or from any corporation, society, association, foundation or institution organized and operated exclusively for charitable, religious or educational purposes. However, deeds or trust documents, other than those in which the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs of the United States is the grantee pursuant to a foreclosure proceeding, shall not be exempt from filing the declaration. (c) Deeds or trust documents that secure debt or other obligation. (d) Deeds or trust documents that, without additional consideration, confirm, correct, modify, or supplement a deed or trust document previously recorded. (e) Deeds or trust documents where the actual consideration is less than $100. (f) Tax deeds. (g) Deeds or trust documents that release property that is security for a debt or other obligation. (h) Deeds of partition. (i) Deeds or trust documents made pursuant to mergers, consolidations or transfers or sales of substantially all of the assets of corporations under plans of reorganization under the Federal Internal Revenue Code or Title 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy Act. (j) Deeds or trust documents made by a subsidiary corporation to its parent corporation for no consideration other than the cancellation or surrender of the subsidiary's stock. (k) Deeds when there is an actual exchange of real estate and trust documents when there is an actual exchange of beneficial interests, except that that money difference or money's worth paid from one to the other is not exempt from the tax. These deeds or trust documents, however, shall not be exempt from filing the declaration. (l) Deeds issued to a holder of a mortgage, as defined in Section 15-103 of the Code of Civil Procedure, pursuant to a mortgage foreclosure proceeding or pursuant to a transfer in lieu of foreclosure. (m) A deed or trust document related to the purchase of a principal residence by a participant in the program authorized by the Home Ownership Made Easy Act, except that those deeds and trust documents shall not be exempt from filing the declaration. 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Prepared By and After Recording Return to:                         Send Tax Statements to Grantee (Name and Address):                         -------- Above This Line Reserved For Official Use Only--------       NOTE: Exempt under Provisions of Paragraph ____________ , Section 31-45, Real Estate Transfer Tax Law, Illinois Property Tax Code WARRANTY DEED (Separate Property or Joint Property to Joint Tenancy) KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS THAT: FOR VALUABLE CONSIDERATION OF TEN DOLLARS ($10.00), and other good and valuable consideration, cash in hand paid, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged and confessed, and for which no lien, express or implied, does or shall exist, ______________________________ , an Individual, or ______________________________ and ______________________________ , Individuals, hereinafter referred to as “Grantor”, whether one or more, does hereby CONVEY AND WARRANT unto ______________________________ and ______________________________ , as joint tenants with rights of survivorship and not as tenants in common, all that certain tract or parcel of land lying and being situated in the County of ________________________ , City of ________________________ , State of Illinois, to-wit: See Legal Description Attached as Exhibit A incorporated by reference as though set forth in full Legal Description:       Warranty Deed Page 1 of 3 Commonly known as: (street address )       hereby releasing and waiving all rights under and by virtue of the Homestead Exemption Laws of the State of Illinois. Permanent Index Number(s): ____________________________________ Property Address: ________________________________________________ SUBJECT to all easements, rights-of-way, protective covenants and mineral reservations of record, if any. WITNESS Grantor(s) hand(s) this the ______ day of __________________ , 20 ______ . (1 st Grantor’s Signature) (2 nd Grantor’s Signature)             Print Name Print Name STATE OF ILLINOIS COUNTY OF __________________ The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me this ______ day of __________________ , ______ by ______________________________ (name of person acknowledged.) Notary Public (SEAL)       Type or Print Name My Commission Expires: __________________ STATE OF ILLINOIS COUNTY OF __________________ Warranty Deed Page 2 of 3 The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me this ______ day of __________________ , ______ by ______________________________ (name of person acknowledged.) Notary Public (SEAL)       Type or Print Name My Commission Expires: __________________ Grantor(s) Name, Address and phone: Grantee(s) Name, Address and Phone:                                                             Warranty Deed Page 3 of 3 EXHIBIT A       Warranty Deed Exhibit A