MI SB0735

Registers of deeds cannot record deeds or instruments conveying interest in land from surviving joint tenants or tenants by the entirety unless proof of death is provided for each deceased joint tenant or tenant by the entirety.

Acceptable proof of death includes a certified copy of the death certificate or other proof of death permitted by Michigan law to be recorded by the register.

Required death certificates must be either already recorded in the register's office (identified by liber and page reference) or filed concurrently with the deed and recorded as a separate document.

Effective date is September 18, 2018 (90 days after enactment on June 19, 2018).