All notable changes to TumbleweedTitle are documented here. I try to keep this updated but no promises.
- Fixed a nasty edge case in the deed chain ingester where quitclaim deeds recorded in the same county recorder batch as warranty deeds were sometimes being treated as chain breaks — this was causing false positives on a handful of New Mexico parcels (#1337)
- Affidavit draft templates now correctly pull the adverse possession statutory period per state (NV is 5 years, AZ is 10, WY is 10, etc.) instead of defaulting to the Nevada rule for everything west of Utah
- Minor fixes
- Added heirship affidavit workflow support — if the deed chain has an intestate gap, TumbleweedTitle will now flag the specific decedent and generate a preliminary heirs-at-law worksheet your attorney can actually hand to a title underwriter (#892)
- Reworked the 80-year lookback logic to handle grantor/grantee index gaps that show up in counties that digitized their records from microfilm; the old approach was choking on partial instrument numbers
- Adverse possession risk scoring now accounts for parcel adjacency and fence-line encroachment data where county GIS layers are available — still rough but better than nothing
- Performance improvements
- Patched the county recorder feed parser for Elko County, NV after they quietly changed their export format sometime in October (#441)
- The affidavit preview pane was rendering notarization blocks wrong on Windows — line breaks in the jurat language were getting collapsed. Should be fixed now
- Minor fixes
- First pass at automated break-in-chain detection across all 13 supported western counties — flags missing links, straw man conveyances, and deed-in-lieu transactions that didn't get properly recorded
- Added PDF export for the full title chain summary with instrument numbers, recording dates, and grantor/grantee names formatted the way underwriters expect to see them
- Onboarding flow for new county data sources; adding a new county used to require editing a config file by hand which was embarrassing