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Documents a Notary can notarize

Most common documents a notary can notarize for you are:

Sworn Statement, Quitclaim Deed, Statement of Consent (for application for Passport for child under age 16), Application for Duplicate or Paperless Title, Power of Attorney, Deed of Trust, Release and Waiver, Parental Consent for Travel, Affidavit of Forgery, Assignment, Certificate of Authorship, Certificate of Identity, Plea Form, Rental Agreement, Grant Deed, Deed of Trust, Compliance Agreement, Name Affidavit, Copy Certification By Document Custodian, Durable Power of Attorney, Power of Attorney for Health Care/Advance Health Care Directive, Spousal Waiver, Demand Letter, Guaranty, Contract, Student Enrollment Verification, Amendment to Revocable Trust, Inter-Creditor Agreement, Modification Agreement, Subordination Agreement, Resignation of Trustee, Unclaimed Property Form, Authorization, Living Trust, Bill of Sale and many more.

Documents a Notary CAN NOT notarize!

Birth certificate

Death certificate

Marriage certificate

Articles of incorporation for a business

If you need copies of theses documents, you have to request them from the original place that produced them.

A Florida Notary Public CAN NOT perform any of these

  • Notarize a document unless the signer personally appears before the notary public at the time of the notarization. (incl. Webcam use)
  • Notarize a document outside the State of Florida
  • Notarize a document that is incomplete
  • Notarize a document that is not understood by the signer
  • Notarize a document that the signer is forced to sign (not willfully)
  • Notarize a picture/photo
  • Notarize a signature on a document requiring two signatures unless the notary stipulates which signature is being notarized by indicating such in the acknowledgement
  • Notarize a document that has blank spaces therein
  • Post date or antedate any acknowledgement on a document.
    Notarize a document if the signer is the mother, father, son, daughter, or spouse of the notary public
  • Notarize a document if the notary public has a financial interest in or is a party to the underlying document
  • Notarize his or her own signature
  • Transfer a Florida notary commission to another state (since notary laws differ from state to state, commissions are not transferable)

Definitions

RON (REMOTE ONLINE NOTARY) – An active notary public who is an online notary public.

EXECUTOR – A person names in a will to carry out the provisions of the will.

OATH – Any type of attestation made truthfully and faithfully, a solemn declaration of truth or obligation.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT – The declaration of a person described and who has executed a written instrument that he executed same.

ADDENDUM – A separate written addition to a contract or agreement.

AFFIANT – A person who makes and subscribes his signature to an affidavit.

AFFIDAVIT – A signed statement, duly sworn to by the the affiant, attesting to the truth, to the best of his knowledge, of the facts in a document.

ATTEST – To certify as true.

ATTORNEY-IN-FACT – A person legally authorized to execute specific types of instruments for another person, corporation, etc.

DEPOSITION – The written testimony of a witness taken out of court under oath before a notary or other person authorized to take it.

FELONY – A crime punishable by death or imprisonment in state prison.

FRAUD – A cheat; an act of trickery to delude a person into a false sense of well-being, enabling another person to gain dishonestly.

JURAT – “Sworn to before me this _______ day of ______, 20__.”

LIEN – A lien is placed on property to establish prior rights and indicates a debt.

MISDEMEANOR – Any crime other than a felony.

PERJURY – A false swearing under oath.

Resources

Additional information on the proper procedures to be followed by a notary public in the State of Florida can be obtained as follows, free of charge:

For any questions concerning these manuals or detailed legal questions, please telephone the Governor’s Notary Section at (850) 245-6975.

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