Legal disclaimer

What Deedly is

Deedly is a self-help software product operated by Handler Labs LLC. It generates real estate deeds from statutory forms and from a database of state and county requirements, based entirely on the answers you provide.

What Deedly is not

• Not a law firm. We do not practice law in any state.
• Not your attorney. Using this site does not create an attorney-client relationship, and nothing you tell us is protected by attorney-client privilege.
• Not legal advice. Everything on this site is general information about how deeds work. It is not advice about your situation, and it is not a substitute for a licensed attorney in your state.
• Not a title company. We do not search title, we do not issue title insurance, and we do not verify that anyone actually owns the property described in a deed.
• Not a filing service. You notarize and record your own document. We tell you exactly how, but we do not do it for you.

How the routing works

The interview asks what you are trying to accomplish and maps that to a document type using fixed rules. That is document selection by software, a deterministic lookup, not a professional judgment about your circumstances. Where a situation falls outside what a form can safely handle, the software stops and tells you to see an attorney rather than generating something anyway.

Situations where we decline

Deedly will not generate a document when the interview indicates any of the following, because a deed is the wrong tool and would not achieve what you want:

• Ownership of the property is disputed, or the property is involved in a lawsuit, foreclosure, or bankruptcy.
• The current owner has died and the estate has not been through probate or a small-estate process.
• Your estate is likely to owe federal or state estate tax.
• You are transferring property in order to qualify for Medicaid or long-term care benefits.
• The transfer involves mineral, oil and gas, water, or timber rights, or agricultural land with a special assessment.
• The property is in Louisiana, which uses civil law instruments rather than common-law deeds.

Accuracy, and its limits

We maintain per-state statutory templates and county requirements and review them against current law. We cannot guarantee that a specific county's requirements have not changed since our last review, that a document will be accepted in every circumstance, or that a deed is the right choice for your situation. State law and local practice change, sometimes without notice.

When to hire an attorney

• Anyone is contesting ownership, or a lawsuit involves the property.
• The transfer is part of an estate plan involving trusts, tax planning, or a family business.
• You are planning around Medicaid, long-term care, or means-tested benefits.
• The property is commercial, is held with multiple unrelated owners, or is subject to a complicated financing structure.
• You do not understand what a document does after reading the explanation we provide. That is a completely reasonable reason to stop.

Questions

Write to legal@getdeedly.com. We answer questions about what Deedly does. We cannot answer questions about what you should do. That is exactly the line this page describes.