A property interest owned by someone who has been dead for many years is a problem that won’t go away on its own. If the owner died years ago, but the property was never transferred out of their name, it will be difficult, if not impossible, to sell, lease, or otherwise transfer the interest until it is in the name of the living person entitled to ownership.
Fortunately, there are options for transferring Colorado property interests when the owner has been deceased for years or even decades.
A quiet title action is the most document-intensive of the three options discussed in this article. It typically takes the longest and is almost invariably the most expensive. We generally consider a quiet title action only as a last resort, when the other two options are not available.