Document Filing Checklist

Requirements

Please review the following checklist to ensure all filing requirements are met when submitting documents. For more information, please contact the Register of Deeds Office at (913) 804-6025.


General Requirements

  • Original signatures or certified copy
  • Names typed or printed under all signatures
  • Proper notary
    • State
    • County
    • Signature
    • Seal
    • Expiration date
    • Who appeared
  • Complete legal description
  • Check or money order payable to Register of Deeds
  • Document is of sufficient legibility and font style to reproduce a clear reproduction
  • Correct filing fees submitted
  • Document is a Atchison County, Kansas filing
  • Instrument date


Mortgage Release or Assignment

Book and page or document number of referenced document included


Deeds

  • Marital status for grantor
  • Sales validation questionnaire included or exemption noted on deed
  • Tax address if no sales validation questionnaire included


Mortgage

  • Mortgage tax included
  • If exempt from mortgage tax, include Mortgage Registration Fee Affidavit
  • If modification of a mortgage, reference book and page or document number of mortgage being modified