[WSBAPT] How to move forward with Quit Claim Deed when names listed on title are misspelled

[Setareh Mahmoodi]

Hi Eric,

Why not call the title company and have them resolve the issue? That's
where I would start.

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 5:33 PM, Eric Reutter <eric at tnguyenlaw.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a quick question involving a pre-existing error on title to an
> individual's home.
>
> I am in the process of preparing a quit claim deed for clients. When I
> checked the title records, I noticed that the most recent deed, the
> statutory warranty deed issued to clients when they purchased the home,
> erroneously flipped the clients' middle and first names.
>
> For example, instead of reading "John Doe Smith," the deed read "Doe John
> Smith." And instead of "Jane Doe Smith" the wife's name was listed as "Doe
> Jane Smith."
>
> My question is, what is the best way to proceed in regards to the inverted
> names, when I want to draft a quit claim deeds transferring ownership from
> one co-owner to the other co-owner?
>
> One possibility is to simply prepare the quit claim deed with the correct
> spelling of the clients' names. With this approach, however, I worry about
>  the discrepancy on title between the names on the statutory warranty deed
> and the names on the quit claim deed..
>
> Another option is to look into filing a corrective deed, but I worry that
> method would require the signature of the original grantor of the statutory
> warranty deed.
>
> If anyone has experience dealing with a misspelled or inverted name
> appearing on title, I would appreciate your thoughts!
>
> Best regards,
>
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