1. A. Title to the interest in real estate recorded in transfer-on-death form shall vest in the designated grantee beneficiary or beneficiaries on the death of the record owner. The death of the record owner shall be evidenced by the recording of an affidavit in the office of the county clerk of the county where the real estate is located. The affidavit shall be executed by the grantee beneficiary or beneficiaries. The affidavit shall state the fact of the death of the record owner, state whether or not the record owner and the designated grantee were husband and wife, and provide the legal description of the real estate. The affidavit shall be notarized. If the record owner and designated grantee were not husband and wife, a copy of the death certificate of the record owner and an estate tax release shall be attached to the affidavit.
2. B. Grantee beneficiaries of a transfer-on-death deed take the interest of the record owner in the real estate at death subject to all conveyances, assignments, contracts, mortgages, liens and security pledges made by the record owner or to which the record owner was subject during the lifetime of the record owner including, but not limited to, any executory contract of sale, option to purchase, lease, license, easement, mortgage, deed of trust or lien, and to any interest conveyed by the record owner that is less than all of the record owner's interest in the property.
3. C. If a grantee beneficiary dies prior to the death of the record owner and an alternative grantee beneficiary has not been designated on the deed, the transfer shall lapse.

Added by Laws 2008, HB 2639, c. 78, § 5, eff. November 1, 2008.