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Transfer-on-Death Deed Is Invalid If Not Recorded Before Death

In a case of first impression, the Second District Court of Appeals, in In re Estate of Scott (2005), 164 Ohio App. 3d 464, has held that a transfer-on-death deed under R.C. Section 5302.22 is invalid if it is executed, but not recorded prior to the grantor's death. Thus, the real estate that the decedent intended to transfer to a particular child upon her death instead passed to her estate, of which all four of her children were beneficiaries.

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