<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Thanks to all for the quick response. We will be doing two deeds in this case. I understand now that the TOD "deed" is really in the nature of a testamentary instrument. </div><div><br></div><div>John Sullivan<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>sullaw@comcast.net<br><b>To: </b>"WSBA Listserv" <wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, September 18, 2017 10:17:30 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>[WSBAPT] Removal of RP from RLT as TOD - One Recording or Two?<br><div><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Listmates:</div><div><br></div><div>I have a client who wants to remove her condo from her revocable trust and/or establish it as TOD to her child at her death. <br><div><br></div>Is there a way to accomplish the TOD objective without two recordings (incurring two recording fees)?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Can I have her, as trustee, quitclaim the condo out to herself in distribution and simultaneously convert her ownership to the TOD form in a single deed? <br></div><div><br></div><div>Or, can the trustee, at her direction as grantor record a TOD deed, retaining title in the name of the RLT?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Or, do I have to quitclaim out to the grantor, who then records a second TOD deed?<br></div><div><br></div><div>It seems silly to require two recordings in this case. <br></div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0px;"><a name="_MailAutoSig" class="mceItemAnchor"></a><b><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Bodoni MT Condensed',serif;">Best regards</span></b><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Bodoni MT Condensed',serif;">, </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px;"></span><a title="mailto:dlyons@lyonslawoffices.com
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