Personal Representative's Deed of Distribution / Conveyance - South Carolina
PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE'S DEED OF DISTRIBUTION / CONVEYANCE
South Carolina — [________________] County
Before you use this: Select exactly one conveyance route below. A sale of estate real property needs authority in the will or the applicable court procedure; a deed of distribution in kind follows § 62-3-907. Confirm the current appointment, will or order, title, full legal description, and all required signers. A qualifying § 62-3-907 deed of distribution is outside the deed recording fee chapter and needs no § 12-24-70 affidavit; determine the fee and affidavit separately for a sale. Arrange two subscribing witnesses and an acknowledgment.
Prepared by: [________________________________]
Return recorded deed to: [________________________________]
Tax map / parcel number: [________________________________]
Estate, parties, and authority
Decedent: [________________________________]
Date of death: [__/__/____]
Estate and probate court: [________________________________]
Estate case number: [________________________________]
Acting personal representative Grantor: [________________________________]
Appointment / letters date: [__/__/____]
Grantee full legal name: [________________________________]
Grantee mailing address: [________________________________]
Select one authority and conveyance route:
☐ Sale authorized by will. The admitted will [devises this property to the Personal Representative / expressly authorizes the Personal Representative to sell it]. Will admission date: [__/__/____]. The Grantee is a purchaser for value.
☐ Court-directed sale after partition request under § 62-3-911. Court, case number, and order date: [________________________________]. The Grantee is a purchaser for value.
☐ Court-authorized sale under the court-sale procedure identified in § 62-3-1301. Court, case number, and order date: [________________________________]. The Grantee is a purchaser for value.
☐ Distribution in kind under § 62-3-907. Grantee is a distributee entitled to this property under [will / intestacy]: [________________________________]. No sale is made.
Sale consideration, if a sale route was selected: $[____________] paid or to be paid as follows: [________________________________]
Operative conveyance
For the authority and transaction selected above, Grantor, solely as Personal Representative of the Decedent's estate and not individually, grants, bargains, sells, and releases to Grantee, Grantee's heirs and assigns, all right, title, and interest of the estate in the real property located in [________________] County, South Carolina, described in Exhibit A, together with its rights, members, hereditaments, and appurtenances (the Property). If the distribution route was selected, this instrument also assigns, transfers, or releases the Property to Grantee as evidence of the distributee's title under § 62-3-907.
To have and to hold the conveyed interest to Grantee, Grantee's heirs and assigns, forever. This deed gives no warranty of title, express or implied. Grantor signs in a representative capacity only; this deed does not release any lien or debt.
Existing liens or specific matters to which this conveyance is subject, if any:
[____________________________________________________________]
[____________________________________________________________]
Execution
Witness the Personal Representative's hand and seal on [__/__/____].
Personal Representative signature: [________________________________] (Seal)
Printed name: [________________________________]
Signed in our presence; we subscribe as witnesses to Grantor's signature:
Witness 1 signature: [________________________________]
Witness 1 printed name: [________________________________]
Witness 2 signature: [________________________________]
Witness 2 printed name: [________________________________]
Acknowledgment
State of [________________]
County of [________________]
I, [________________________________], [official title], certify that [PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE NAME], acting as Personal Representative of the Estate of [DECEDENT NAME], personally appeared before me on [__/__/____] and acknowledged the due execution of this deed in the presence of the two witnesses named above.
Official signature: [________________________________]
Printed name and title: [________________________________]
My commission expires, if applicable: [__/__/____]
Official seal, if required: [________________________________]
Exhibit A — legal description and derivation
Full legal description of the Property:
[____________________________________________________________]
[____________________________________________________________]
[____________________________________________________________]
Derivation: Decedent acquired title from [PRIOR GRANTOR / DECEDENT] by [DEED / INHERITANCE / DEVISE] on or about [__/__/____]. If by deed, its recording date is [__/__/____], recorded in [________________] County as [BOOK / INSTRUMENT NUMBER] [____________], [PAGE, IF ANY] [____________]. If by inheritance or devise through an administered estate, the probate court is [________________________________].
About this template
- Last updated
- October 17, 2026
- Citations checked
- October 17, 2026
- Jurisdiction
- South Carolina
- Category
- Real Estate
Legal authority
- S.C. Code Ann. § 62-3-711(b) (limits on sale)
- S.C. Code Ann. § 62-3-711(c) (will-authorized sale)
- S.C. Code Ann. § 62-3-907(A) (deed of distribution of real property)
- S.C. Code Ann. § 62-3-911(2) (court-directed partition sale)
- S.C. Code Ann. § 62-3-1301 (court-sale procedure)
- S.C. Code Ann. § 27-7-20 (warranty clause optional)
- S.C. Code § 30-5-30(B) (two-witness acknowledgment route for recording)
- S.C. Code Ann. § 30-5-35(a) (derivation clause and grantee mailing address)
- S.C. Code § 12-24-10(A) (fee on covered deeds)
- S.C. Code § 12-24-10(B) (distribution exception)
- S.C. Code § 12-24-70(A) (affidavit)
- S.C. Code § 12-24-70(D) (distribution affidavit exception)
Real estate documents transfer ownership, define who can use a property, and record agreements between buyers, sellers, landlords, and tenants. Deeds, purchase agreements, leases, and easements have to be drafted to meet state recording requirements, and mistakes show up at closing or years later in title disputes. Good real estate paperwork moves transactions forward quickly and avoids the kind of problems that only surface when it is time to sell or refinance.
Not legal advice
This template is provided for informational purposes. We recommend having an attorney review any legal document before signing, especially for high-value or complex matters.
Checked against the law it cites
A reviewer verified this template's legal citations against the official source on October 17, 2026.
S.C. Code § 30-5-30, opening sentence (checked October 9, 2026): "Except as otherwise provided by statute, before any deed or other instrument in writing can be recorded in this State, it must be acknowledged or proved by the method described in subsection (A)(1), (A)(2), or (B)."
S.C. Code § 30-5-30(B) (checked October 9, 2026): "A deed or other instrument must be signed by the grantor, mortgagor, vendor, or lessor and the signing must be acknowledged by the grantor, mortgagor, vendor, or lessor in the presence of two witnesses, taken before some officer within this State competent to administer an oath."
S.C. Code § 12-24-10(B) (checked October 17, 2026): "An instrument or deed of distribution assigning, transferring, or releasing real property to the distributee of a decedent's estate pursuant to Section 62-3-907 as evidence of the distributee's title to the property is not a deed subject to this chapter."
S.C. Code § 12-24-70(D) (checked October 17, 2026): "An affidavit is not required for an instrument or deed of distribution assigning, transferring, or releasing real property to the distributee of an estate pursuant to Section 62-3-907 as evidence of the distributee's title."
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