MI HB4532

Written instruments conveying or mortgaging real estate executed before April 6, 2017 must state whether any male grantors, mortgagors, or other executing parties are married or single, with registers of deeds required to refuse recording of non-compliant instruments.

Instruments recorded without required marital status statements may be corrected by recording an affidavit stating the facts, making the original instrument and affidavit valid and admissible as evidence.

Instruments recorded before April 6, 2017 without marital status statements become valid and admissible as legal records after 10 years have elapsed since recording.

Act effective immediately upon approval on June 15, 2017.