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Understanding The Role: Notary Signing Agent Notaries provide an important public service by checking identification and witnessing signatures on a wide range of documents. Notary signing agents also check identification and witness document signing, but…
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State governments appoint notaries to act as impartial witnesses to the signing of important documents, essentially guarding against fraud by verifying identity. Though notaries do not provide legal guidance on the contents of documents, they…
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Notaries providing remote online services transform business processes. Gone is the lag time associated with many routine tasks in finance, insurance and legal services. Experts point out that remote online notarization (RON) has additional benefits…
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  Enjoy civic-minded work? Hate paper? Love speed and efficiency?  The new era in the notary public profession was made for you. Business is booming for online and mobile notary public services.  There’s No Going…
Read Moreabout A Rapidly Changing Field: Notary Publics

Across the country, millions of notaries public are appointed by state governments to help deter fraud, but rarely do we hear about how this public service is regulated—or modernized. Change is underway. National Recognition for…
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The Internal Revenue Service is easing spousal notarization and plan representative witness prerequisites this year for retirement plan elections in IRS Notice 2020-42. The notice discusses the physical presence condition for notarization or witnessing specific plan…
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A notary public is an official of integrity selected by the state government to serve as an impartial witness in executing several official fraud-deterrent acts related to the signing of vital documents. These certified acts are called…
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Get your webcams ready, Texas notary publics! The state’s Governor, Greg Abbot, is shelving a statute on notary public appearances concerning real-estate instruments like mortgages, allowing notary publics to appear via videoconference when executing real-estate…
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Next in line, please! The County of Morris, New Jersey, just announced they are starting the process of renewing notary public commissions. The renewal process has been on hold during the COVID-19 pandemic; however, the…
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