Recording Requirements

General Recording Requirements

Instruments must contain original signatures (both signers and notary public), be notarized, contain a Pratt County legal description, and be accompanied by the proper filing fee. Photocopies can not be recorded unless they are certified copies from another recording office with an original certificate attached.

Deeds and Affidavits of Equitable Interest must be accompanied by a Kansas Real Estate Sales Validation Questionnaire (one-part form accepted in this office) or have the exemption typed on the face of the deed. The exemptions are found in K.S.A. 79-1437e. They are:

  1. Recorded prior to the effective date of this act
  2. Made solely for the purpose of securing or releasing security for a debt or other obligation
  3. Made for the purpose of confirming, correcting, modifying or supplementing a deed previously recorded, and without additional consideration
  4. By way of gift, donation or contribution stated in the deed or other instrument
  5. To cemetery lots
  6. By leases and transfers of severed mineral interests
  7. To or from a trust, and without consideration
  8. Resulting from a divorce settlement where one party transfers interest in property to the other
  9. Made solely for the purpose of creating a joint tenancy or tenancy in common
  10. By way of a sheriff's deed
  11. By way of a deed which has been in escrow for longer than five years
  12. By way of a quit claim deed filed for the purpose of clearing title encumbrances
  13. When title is transferred to convey right-of-way or pursuant to eminent domain
  14. Made by a guardian, executor, administrator, conservator or trustee of an estate pursuant to judicial order
  15. When title is transferred due to repossession
  16. Made for the purpose of releasing an equitable lien on a previously recorded affidavit of equitable interest, and without additional consideration

When a real estate sales validation questionnaire is not required due to one or more of the exemptions provided in subsection (a), the exemption shall be clearly stated on the document being filed.

Filing fees are to be paid at the time of filing and are set by state statute K.S.A. 28-115.