Cross Indexing
MULTI-DOCUMENT CANCELLATIONS
Georgia Law provides additional fees for cross indexing real estate and lien documents and for filing and recording multi-document cancellations.
The law establishes a $2 fee for cross indexing:
- Any instrument that is statutorily required to be cross indexed, canceled, satisfied, or released, and
- Any other instrument upon request of the filing party.
Instruments required to be cross indexed by statute include:
- Corrective Instrumentation
- Cancellation or Release (including partials and quit claim deeds of release)
- Deed Under Power (disclosure deed) or Deed in Lieu of Foreclosure
- Assignment
- Affidavit (affecting title)
- Nulla Bona
- Notice of Suit Filed
- Tax Sale Deed for Title
- Re-Filed Deed or Lien in response to a change in county line
- Order Vacating Judgement
- Non Conforming Lien Removal
- Personal property Lien Extension Affidavits
- Settlement of Final Judgment (cross index to Lis Pendens)
- Notice of Content Lien
Multi-Document Cancellations
The law also provides for recording any investment that includes a request to cancel, satisfy, or release more than one real estate instrument, the fee shall be as follows:
- $10.00 per instrument being canceled, satisfied, or released
- $2.00 per cross indexing of each instrument
- $2.00 for each additional page
For recording any instrument that includes a request to cancel, satisfy, or release more than one lien instrument, the fee shall be as follows:
- $5.00 per instrument being canceled, satisfied, or released
- $2.00 per cross indexing of each instrument
- $2.00 for each additional page