New York State Quit Claim Deed: Fill & Download for Free

Do we need a lawyer for house agreement contract if what would be the benefits?Need? No. The contract is between you and the other party. A lawyer isn’t necessary to draw the contract up (or even review it).However, in most cases you’d be well advised to have a lawyer.First of all, real estate contracts have a lot of “moving parts.” You need to make sure that each one is legal. You also need to make sure that they work together, that one doesn’t contradict another. You also need someone (a task often performed by real estate agents, but they’ll tell you correctly that they aren’t lawyers) to watch out for your best interests. It also helps to have a lawyer point out any parts of the contract that are peculiar, or that you may have skipped over.Plus, you’re not a lawyer. You’re signing a legal contract. Beyond that, how many houses have you bought in your lifetime. If you’re average, you’ll buy about 7 during your life. A real estate lawyer likely reviews that number of contracts in a day.I’ve found that one of the best uses of lawyers (and this includes when I didn’t use them and got screwed) is looking for gaps or holes . . . areas where the other person can take advantage of me. And often you’re in a situation where you don’t even know what you don’t know. You don’t know where your blind spots are. Here’s a quick, simple example. You go to closing Your lender has wired the funds to the settlement company. You sign all sort of documents. The seller gives you a quit claim deed to the property. He tells you truthfully that it’s a legal deed, properly drawn up. You look at it, and it has the right address, the right signatures, etc. You accept it.Do you own the property?Well?Answer: Only if the “seller” is the legal owner of the property. Anyone can award a quit claim deed for any property. I could hand you a quit claim deed for the Brooklyn Bridge. That’s because a quit claim deed says, basically, that I’m giving you my ownership interest in the property. It doesn’t mean I actually own the property. It’s just: If I own the property, I’m giving you my ownership interest.You’re going to be signing documents that probably total hundreds of pages. Trust me: You don’t know what you don’t know.In some states, such as New York, it’s standard for lawyers to be involved in the process, including a formal “legal review.” In other states, honestly, it’s unusual for lawyers to be involved. And probably 99.9% of them work out just fine. So, no, you don’t need a lawyer for a real estate contract. But you’ll probably sleep a whole lot better if you have one.

The question is where to find forms to file with the courts or to draft legal documents done a person for themselves. Pro Se also means In Pro Per, or to represent one’s self.If a form is to be filed with a court, many courts have the hard copy form at the courthouse itself. Many courts also will have their forms online on their website. n my state, we have a government website that has every form used in every court that can be filled in online and printed out.There are also commercial websites that will allow a person to fill in the blank on their forms for a fee. There are also self help books that have the forms in them for a person to fill out themselves.I have seen many documents executed or signed by clients where they do not know the implications of what they are doing. Typical documents would be Quit Claim Deeds, Warranty Deeds, Power of Attorneys, Last Wills, and Trusts.It can be very costly to do your own legal documents if you are not familiar with the law. For example, I had a family come to me with their mother’s Last Will and Testament which the family had downloaded from a document form service and had their mother complete. The mother was born, raised and died in the state of Michigan. Now the Last Will needed to be probated. I practice in Michigan. The Last Will specifically stated that this Last Will shall be interpreted pursuant to the laws of the state of Louisiana. It is pretty common to find a Michigan attorney also licensed in Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, even New York and Florida. But it is pretty rare to find a Michigan attorney also licensed in Louisiana.Since government works cannot be copyrighted, any form that you need for a court should be available for free to you. I would search your home state’s websites and the specific court first, before paying any money to a private company.

That would be totally superfluous, since a much better writer has just done it. Salman Rushdie: I hope you’ve heard of him?Quichotte: A Novel - Kindle edition by Salman Rushdie. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.How does Rushdie describe the modern-day Quixote?There once lived, at a series of temporary addresses across the United States of America, a traveling man of Indian origin, advancing years, and retreating mental powers, who, on account of his love for mindless television, had spent far too much of his life in the yellow light of tawdry motel rooms watching an excess of it, and had suffered a peculiar form of brain damage as a result. He devoured morning shows, daytime shows, late-night talk shows, soaps, situation comedies, Lifetime movies, hospital dramas, police series, vampire and zombie serials, the dramas of housewives from Atlanta, New Jersey, Beverly Hills, and New York, the romances and quarrels of hotel-fortune princesses and self-styled shahs, the cavortings of individuals made famous by happy nudities, the fifteen minutes of fame accorded to young persons with large social media followings on account of their plastic-surgery acquisition of a third breast or their post-rib-removal figures that mimicked the impossible shape of the Mattel company’s Barbie doll, or even, more simply, their ability to catch giant carp in picturesque settings while wearing only the tiniest of string bikinis; as well as singing competitions, cooking competitions, competitions for business propositions, competitions for business apprenticeships, competitions between remote-controlled monster vehicles, fashion competitions, competitions for the affections of both bachelors and bachelorettes, baseball games, basketball games, football games, wrestling bouts, kickboxing bouts, extreme sports programming, and, of course, beauty contests. (He did not watch “hockey.” For people of his ethnic persuasion and tropical youth, hockey, which in the USA was renamed “field hockey,” was a game played on grass. To play field hockey on ice was, in his opinion, the absurd equivalent of ice-skating on a lawn.)As a consequence of his near-total preoccupation with the material offered up to him through, in the old days, the cathode-ray tube, and, in the new age of flat screens, through liquid-crystal, plasma, and organic light-emitting diode displays, he fell victim to that increasingly prevalent psychological disorder in which the boundary between truth and lies became smudged and indistinct, so that at times he found himself incapable of distinguishing one from the other, reality from “reality,” and began to think of himself as a natural citizen (and potential inhabitant) of that imaginary world beyond the screen to which he was so devoted, and which, he believed, provided him, and therefore everyone, with the moral, social, and practical guidelines by which all men and women should live. As time passed and he sank ever deeper into the quicksand of what might be termed the unreal real, he felt himself becoming emotionally involved with many of the inhabitants of that other, brighter world, membership in which he thought of as his to claim by right, like a latter-day Dorothy contemplating a permanent move to Oz; and at an unknown point he developed an unwholesome, because entirely one-sided, passion for a certain television personality, the beautiful, witty, and adored Miss Salma R, an infatuation which he characterized, quite inaccurately, as love. In the name of this so-called love he resolved zealously to pursue his “beloved” right through the television screen into whatever exalted high-definition reality she and her kind inhabited, and, by deeds as well as grace, to win her heart.Those are the opening paragraphs. Feel uncomfortable? It should.