Title Insurance provides protection from title defects such as:
- False impersonation of the true owner of the property.
- Forged deeds, releases or other documents.
- Deeds of persons of unsound mind or under duress.
- Deeds by minors.
- Deeds not properly delivered.
- Invalid documents completed by an expired power of attorney.
- Invalid deeds delivered after the death of the grantor.
- Undisclosed or missing heirs; wills not properly probated.
- Deeds by supposedly single persons but actually married whose spouse had marital homestead rights
- Fraud.
- Claims for unpaid estate inheritance and gift taxes against prior owners.
- Incorrect legal descriptions.
- Recorded defects, liens, encumbrances or adverse claims.
