Tuscaloosa County Easement Deed Form (Alabama)
All Tuscaloosa County specific forms and documents listed below are included in your immediate download package:
Easement Deed Form
Fill in the blank form formatted to comply with all recording and content requirements.
Included Tuscaloosa County compliant document last validated/updated 9/18/2024
Easement Deed Guide
Line by line guide explaining every blank on the form.
Included Tuscaloosa County compliant document last validated/updated 10/24/2024
Completed Example of the Easement Deed Document
Example of a properly completed form for reference.
Included Tuscaloosa County compliant document last validated/updated 10/23/2024
Guide to Writing an Easement Description
A Description of the Easement will be required, apply this guide to write an acceptable description of an easement/right of way, which gives access, to and from - point A to point B.
Included Tuscaloosa County compliant document last validated/updated 10/24/2024
The following Alabama and Tuscaloosa County supplemental forms are included as a courtesy with your order:
When using these Easement Deed forms, the subject real estate must be physically located in Tuscaloosa County. The executed documents should then be recorded in one of the following offices:
Tuscaloosa County Probate Judge
Courthouse - 714 Greensboro Ave, Suite 121, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35401-1891 / 35402
Hours: 8:30 to 5:00 M-F
Phone: (205) 464-8204
Mail to: Tuscaloosa County Commission
PO Box 20067, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35402
Hours:
Phone:
Local jurisdictions located in Tuscaloosa County include:
- Abernant
- Brookwood
- Buhl
- Coaling
- Coker
- Cottondale
- Duncanville
- Echola
- Elrod
- Fosters
- Kellerman
- Northport
- Peterson
- Ralph
- Samantha
- Tuscaloosa
- Vance
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What does "validated/updated" mean?
This indicates the most recent date when at least one of the following occurred:
- Updated: The document was updated or changed to remain compliant.
- Validated: The document was examined by an attorney or staff, or it was successfully recorded in Tuscaloosa County using our eRecording service.
Are these forms guaranteed to be recordable in Tuscaloosa County?
Yes. Our form blanks are guaranteed to meet or exceed all formatting requirements set forth by Tuscaloosa County including margin requirements, content requirements, font and font size requirements.
Can the Easement Deed forms be re-used?
Yes. You can re-use the forms for your personal use. For example, if you have more than one property in Tuscaloosa County that you need to transfer you would only need to order our forms once for all of your properties in Tuscaloosa County.
What are supplemental forms?
Often when a deed is recorded, additional documents are required by Alabama or Tuscaloosa County. These could be tax related, informational, or even as simple as a coversheet. Supplemental forms are provided for free with your order where available.
What type of files are the forms?
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Do I have to enter all of my property information online?
No. The blank forms are downloaded to your computer and you fill them out there, at your convenience.
Can I save the completed form, email it to someone?
Yes, you can save your deed form at any point with your information in it. The forms can also be emailed, blank or complete, as attachments.
Are there any recurring fees involved?
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Easements in Alabama
An easement is a non-possessory right in the holder of an easement to use land. In other words, an easement is a "lesser" interest in the real estate that allows the party benefiting from the easement use the property, such as using it for access, installation of utility lines, etc. [1]
There are three major types of easements; appurtenant easements, easements in gross, and prescriptive easements. The transferability of an easement depends on what type it is. Two parties must be present to create an easement: the grantor, or the servient tenant, is the person who owns the property, and the grantee, or dominant tenant, is the person who is allowed access to the property. Easements can either be exclusive, meaning the servient tenant is excluded from the benefits of the easement, or non-exclusive, where the servient tenant can access these benefits.
Easements can also create restrictions on property use, like prohibiting where someone might build a fence or add a structure to their property. In Alabama, easements do not have to be acquired by express conveyance; they can also be implied or acquired through necessity, as opposed to a formal recorded instrument [3]. Therefore, it is essential to research the property's history for any unwritten easements prior to purchasing land [4].
Easements have some benefits, but there are also negative effects on the property value when they are created. The general use of an easement is to award another person the right to use an owner's land, which be an undesirable arrangement for future owners. Sometimes, easements are used to give utility companies the right to erect power lines or bury gas pipelines across a tract of land, which could possibly affect resale values of a property if people are uncomfortable living so close to power lines, or if the power lines are viewed as unsightly [2].
Record easements in the same manner as other land records in the county where the property is located. A lawful easement includes the grantor's full name and marital status, as well as the grantee's full name, marital status, and mailing address. The purpose of the easement must also be explained in the document. Contact the recording department of the appropriate probate office for information about fees and accepted forms of payment.
After an easement is created, it will be included in the legal description of any following deeds, and it will remain in place when the land is transferred. The only way to remove an easement from a property is for both parties to agree to a release and terminate the easement.
This article is provided for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. Contact a lawyer with any questions about easement deeds or other issues related to the transfer of real property.
[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/easement
[2] https://robertking.net/2009/10/29/alabama-land-easements-land-accessibility/
[3] Miller v. Harris, 945 So. 2d 1072 (Ala. Civ. App. 2006)
[4] https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/43/2650.4-7
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August 31st, 2022
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January 26th, 2022
From Pennsylvania here. Documents are great and easy to fill out however you are lacking a couple of things. You only provide the option for a Grant Deed when you purchase by your county which is Mercer County for me. Why not give the ability to get a Warranty Deed that better protects the Grantee?
Also, being from Pennsylvania and in a county that mined Buituminous Coal we are required to include the Coal Severance Notice and Bituminous Mine Subsidence and Land Conservation Act Notice. You can check the box on your Deed form that they are required and attached but you do not provide the verbiage or form for this. You state that you know what each county requires and include everything required but you do not include these two required Notices. This has been a requirement for years and the wording never changes. I had to look for these Notices and hand type this information and include it on another seperate page after the Notary section on the Deed. The Grantor has to sign the Coal Severance Notice and be witnessed by a Notary so I had to add another place for the Notary and will have to pay twice for witnessed signatures when it could have been included in your document. My Deed from 2003 was done that way and then the Notary statement after that so it was only one notarized witness of signature.
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May 20th, 2020
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