California property deed transfer services.

For a deed you have already chosen, a Registered & Bonded LDA prepares the same document at a published fee: $325 for a standard deed. We prepare documents at your direction and cannot give legal advice or represent you in court.

TruPoint Legal is LDA #268, registered and bonded in Santa Clara County. To see what the registration covers, read what a Legal Document Assistant is.

Yes. We prepare complete living trust packages in person at our San Jose office: $1,300 for an individual or $1,800 for a married couple. Funding each property into the trust is separate: $325 deed + $50 e-recording + county fee ($50 primary residence / $120 secondary, vacation or investment).

What the package includes, how long it takes, and the languages we serve are all on our living trust in San Jose page.

Yes. California law specifically authorizes Registered Legal Document Assistants to prepare deeds at your direction. TruPoint Legal prepares grant deeds, quitclaim deeds, interspousal transfer deeds, and trust transfer deeds — and electronically records them across 50 California counties.

Property deed preparation starts at $325 plus the county recording fee. In office or remotely — your choice. See our California deed preparation services.

Our registration is public. Search the Santa Clara County Clerk-Recorder’s Legal Document Assistant list for TruPoint Legal, LDA #268, bonded through March 17, 2027.

You can verify any LDA on the relevant county Clerk-Recorder website. TruPoint Legal is LDA #268, Santa Clara County — verify here ↗.

Yes. Quinnie Do works with clients in English, Vietnamese, and Cantonese, and TruPoint Legal has Spanish-speaking support through our office partner. Every document can be explained in your language — from initial intake through signing — without a translator hand-off.

We have dedicated Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt), Cantonese (粵語), and Spanish (Español) pages.

Yes — that is most of what we do. Adding or removing a spouse, funding a living trust, moving a home into an LLC, or gifting to family are all transfers that don’t involve a sale. We prepare the deed and e-record it the same day in any of California’s 50 e-recording counties. We do not handle purchase, sale, or refinance recordings — those go through your escrow or title company.

We prepare your deed, arrange notarization, and submit it electronically to the county recorder the same business day the signed, notarized original is in hand; the county typically records it within 1 to 3 business days — in 50 California counties, without anyone visiting the recorder’s office.

Published fees, quoted before you commit to anything. Most deeds are $325, entity deeds $400, certification of trust $200, small estate affidavit $600, affidavit of death $325, title reports from $30, living trust packages $1,300 individual or $1,800 joint, and name change $500. County recording and court filing fees are separate and paid at cost.

Because most of them only prepare deeds as part of a sale they are already handling. If there is no sale — you are adding a spouse, gifting to a child, funding a trust, moving a rental into an LLC, or clearing a deceased owner — there is no escrow file to attach it to, so they decline. That is the gap we exist to fill, and it is why most people arrive here having already been turned away somewhere else.

With the last recorded deed, because how title was held decides which document you need. Joint tenants means an affidavit of death of joint tenant. Community property with right of survivorship means an affidavit of death of surviving spouse. Property held in a trust means an affidavit of death of trustee. If the deceased owned in their own name alone, a probate route applies — and where the qualifying personal property is $208,850 or less, a small estate affidavit may avoid court entirely. Once you select the document you want prepared, we confirm the fee before any work begins.

Yes, and it is one of the more common reasons people call. Rejections come from a short list: the legal description was copied from the tax bill instead of the recorded deed, the notary acknowledgment was incomplete or on the wrong form, the documentary transfer tax declaration or exemption statement was missing, the Preliminary Change of Ownership Report was not attached, or the margins failed the recorder’s format rules.

It depends who is receiving it. Spousal transfers are excluded. Moving your own home into your own revocable trust is not a change in ownership. A parent-to-child transfer may qualify under Proposition 19, but only for a family home the child makes their principal residence, with a claim filed and a value cap applied — rentals and second homes are reassessed at market value. We are not tax advisors: we claim the exemption you direct on the face of the deed, and the County Assessor decides.

Yes, at the same fee. What matters is where the property is, not where you are. We work with you in our office or remotely. From another state you sign before any notary public licensed where you live. From outside the country the acknowledgment is normally taken at a U.S. embassy or consulate, and California also accepts a notary of that country, though some counties want the signature authenticated first. You never travel to California.

You can, and for a simple transfer it sometimes works. The failures we get called about are consistent: the template was written for another state, the exemption recital was left blank so a property tax exclusion is lost, the legal description was copied off the tax bill, or the vesting did not match what the family intended. A rejected deed costs you a week. A deed that records with a failed exemption is worse, because the reassessment notice arrives months later and by then it is on the public record.

All 50 California counties that accept e-recording. Our office is at 434 Blossom Hill Rd in San Jose, and we prepare and e-record statewide — Bay Area, Central Valley, Central Coast, and Southern California alike. Because intake, review, and signing can happen in our office or remotely, where you live rarely changes anything except how you get to a notary.

For anything involving real property: the current recorded deed, or the property address and APN so we can pull it; the exact legal names of everyone giving and receiving; and whether the transfer is a gift, a sale, a divorce transfer, or a move into a trust or entity, because that determines the exemption you direct us to claim. You select the document; our deed-type pages explain each one, and for advice on which fits your situation, please consult an attorney. Intake takes about ten minutes.