Do I Need a Notary?
A notary public is a legal officer who can witness and authenticate documents and signatures. For the purposes of authentication, many countries require commercial or personal documents which originate from or are signed in another country to be notarised. In some countries, notably, the USA, notaries are not lawyers.
Do I need a notary? You cannot have a US notary to notarise a document or signature in another country, because, US notaries can only act in the US state that they are licensed for.
Apostille is a French word which means certification. It is commonly used in English to refer to the legalisation of a document for international use under the terms of the 1961 Hague Convention, an international treaty that abolished the requirement of legalisation for foreign public documents (that previously might have had to be done at a consulate or the Foreign Office where the notary acted). So nowadays documents which have been notarised by a notary public and then certified with an apostille are accepted for legal use in all the nations that have signed the Hague Convention (this is most western countries, including Israel, the USA, the UK but not Canada nor Australia). The apostille just authenticates the notary’s work.
In reading your website, I noticed that you charge $7.00 per signature (and not $10.00)
when notarizing a document.
However, my question is do you,also charge gas and mileage when you have to drive to your customer, which would be considered Mobile Notary Service perk?
Comment by davetta — September 16, 2008 @ 11:45 am |
In reading your website I noticed that you
charged the consumer $7.00 versus $10, and that
you travel to the consumers home, office, etc.
My question to you is do charge gas and mileage
when you drive to the consumers home, office or place of business?
By the way you do have a informative and attractive websites. Another question – how long have you been in Notary business and how
did you get started notarizing loan documents?
I am sure you are wondering why I have so many
questions is because I have been a Notary for about 18 months, but my business is slow here in the San Francisco, Oakland Bay Area.
If you have any suggestions or ideas on how I can better market my Notary services to the community I would gratefully appreciate them.
Sincerely,
Davetta
davettat@yahoo.com
Comment by davetta — September 16, 2008 @ 11:53 am |