Posted on: 03rd Jun, 2008 05:44 am
If you sign a Quit Claim on a house/ Estate, the person a step father who owns the house than dies, can you than go and file a probate on that house/ Estate and beformally appointed as Executor and get it? Quit Claim was signed in one County and Probate in a different.
Welcome lynsdollclothes.
Was your step father quitclaimed the property to you? If he had quitclaim the property to you and you have notarized and recorded the deed the county recorder's office then you need not to probate.
But he had not quitclaimed to you did he leave any will? If he left a will then you need probate.
Was your step father quitclaimed the property to you? If he had quitclaim the property to you and you have notarized and recorded the deed the county recorder's office then you need not to probate.
But he had not quitclaimed to you did he leave any will? If he left a will then you need probate.
If the decedent executed a proper deed before death, the grantee owns the house regardless of any probate. To open a probate, check with a probate attorney.
