Since 1995, twelve states have passed new laws allowing you an easier "nonprobate" method for leaving real estate to your heirs. These states are: Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin.
This new method of leaving real estate to your heirs involves signing a new deed for your house. Depending on your state, this new deed is called either a "transfer on death deed" or a "beneficiary deed". You sign the deed before a notary public, have it recorded at the court house in the county where your property is located, and then upon your death, the deed automatically transfers your real estate to whomever you named as beneficiary in the deed. This automatic transfer prevents the house or land from having to go through the probate process, thus avoiding delay and cost of probate.
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Nonprobate.com offers downloadable transfer on death deed forms for each state for $9 (currently we have forms for ten states). We are not attorneys, and our standardized deed forms should not substitute for an attorney if you believe you need one. Information we report on our website comes from reviewing law and estate planning websites. Like buying legal forms in an office supply store, using our forms properly is your responsibility. Use of our forms is subject to our Terms of Use. |
| You can preview partially blacked-out samples of our forms by clicking below. You can download most forms by paying $9 by credit card. | |
| The $9 payment allows you 90 days access to the forms page on our website where you can copy and paste any of the forms for one state into your word processing program (MSWord, Wordperfect, etc.) You are welcome to use the forms as you desire (except for distributing them for re-use). If within 30 days of your purchase you are not satisfied, we will promptly refund your $9. |
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| Arkansas | Click link to right | Buy Arkansas deed form |
| Colorado | Click link to right | Buy Colorado deed form |
| Kansas | Transfer on Death Deed | |
| Minnesota | ||
| Missouri | Beneficiary Deed | |
| Montana | (Sorry, form is unavailable) | |
| Nevada | Beneficiary Deed | Buy 90-day download access to Nevada deed forms - $9.00 |
| New Mexico |
Transfer on Death Deed | |
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| Oklahoma |
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(Sorry, form is unavailable) |
| Wisconsin |
Click link to right |
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