The Alabama Title Insurance Agent license
Title Insurance Agent
Issues title insurance for an appointed title insurer under the Alabama Title Insurance Act. Since 10 May 2016 an attorney admitted in Alabama needs no license for it at all, and neither does the law firm they work through, which removes the license outright rather than merely the examination, and reaches the firm as well as the individual.
Course
None
This license has no pre-licensing course route.
Ways in
2
1 of them skips the state exam.
Exam
Varies
Priced per paper. The prices are below.
Every way to qualify
More than one route leads to this license, and which one you take changes what you study and whether you sit the exam. There is no pre-licensing course among them: this license is qualified for by sitting the examination or a license already held.
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Route 1 Pass the title examination and be appointed
State exam required
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A fingerprint background check through Fieldprint under the title agent fingerprint requirement at Ala. Code 27-25-4.6, on the same 30-day clock the Department applies to producers and adjusters
The Alabama Title Insurance Act is chapter 25 of Title 27, amended by Act 2012-397 effective 1 January 2013 and by Act 2016-296 effective 10 May 2016, and Regulation 148 at Ala. Admin. Code 482-1-148 supplies the procedure. No pre-licensing course appears in either. The Department's own reminder is the clearest statement that an examination exists and that it is escapable: individuals previously licensed as title insurance agents here, "whether by having passed the examination or by being exempt from the examination, are exempt from the examination requirements should they subsequently seek to again become licensed", but only where the application arrives within 12 months of the previous license being cancelled.
Read at the Department on 2026-08-19
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Route 2 Be an Alabama attorney, and need no license at all
Exempt from the state exam
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admission to practice by the Alabama State Bar Association, which since 10 May 2016 exempts the attorney, and an entity law firm the attorney does title business through, from the title insurance agent licensing requirements entirely
House Bill 129 of the 2016 Regular Session, Act 2016-296, exempted attorneys licensed by the Alabama State Bar from the title agent law and the Department extends the exemption to an entity law firm the attorney works through. The boundaries are drawn carefully and both of them matter. An attorney doing title business through an entity that is not a law firm does not carry the exemption into it: that entity is licensable and must designate at least one licensed title insurance agent responsible for its compliance and authorized to sign its policies, and an exempt attorney cannot be that designee unless they submit to being licensed. And a non-attorney doing title business through an entity law firm makes the law firm licensable, with the non-attorney able to be its designated responsible party. Attorneys who were already licensed may cancel immediately by letter or simply let the license lapse. Nothing else on this site removes a license requirement from a whole profession this way; the nearest are the attorney carve-outs Maine, Idaho, Washington and Hawaii write for reinsurance intermediaries, which exempt an attorney acting professionally rather than exempting the work.
Read at the Department on 2026-08-19
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No national seller sells a course for this license. Alabama examines title agents and publishes no register of preparation for it, and since 2016 the largest group of people doing this work, Alabama attorneys, need no license at all.