The search is only as good as the page nobody read.
Examination lives in the documents — the prior deed, the open mortgage, the probate order, the 1962 recording package. TitleTrace reads all of them against your firm’s standards and surfaces every requirement with the recorded instrument behind it.
The defects that ride on whether someone read page four.
Breaks in the chain
A grantor who doesn't match the prior owner of record. A missing conveyance between deeds. The gap that quietly clouds the chain of title.
Open encumbrances
A recorded mortgage with no satisfaction or release in the index. The judgment lien, the unreleased lis pendens, the easement that survives closing.
Homestead & marital joinder
Homestead conveyed without the spouse joining — void on its face, and uninsurable. Marital status unstated where the statute requires it.
Legal-description mismatches
A legal description that doesn't tie to the survey or the prior instrument — the kind of discrepancy that becomes a claim years later.
Vesting & capacity
Tenancy that doesn't match the parties. A conveyance by someone without the authority or capacity to convey. Probate and trust gaps.
Recording & execution defects
Missing acknowledgments, defective notarial certificates, instruments recorded out of order — the formal defects that defeat constructive notice.
Requirements and exceptions that cite their instrument.
Schedule B is where examination becomes a deliverable — and where a missed citation becomes a claim. TitleTrace ties every requirement and exception to the recorded instrument behind it, so the examiner who builds the commitment, and the underwriter who insures it, are looking at the same record.
Nothing outstanding shows up after the keys change hands.
For the closing attorney and the escrow agent, the fear is the requirement that surfaces too late. TitleTrace runs your standards on every file before it reaches the table — and when it flags a payoff, a missing release, or an unmet requirement, the evidence is already attached for the call you have to make.
The reading is done. The judgment is yours.
Your best examiner’s judgment, running on the file from 1962 the same way it runs on the one from this morning.