A texas notary has authority to:
Please bring all of the documents that you need to be notarized (and all pages of each).
I will travel to you, whether it is your place of business, hospital, school, home, or another meeting place. We serve the Cameron County area.
In addition to the fee(s) for notary services, there is a travel fee of $10.00
Absolutely not. A Texas notary commission does not impart any legal authority whatsoever; a Texas notary who is not a lawyer does not have this authority. The only Texas notary who may prepare legal documents or give any legal advice or guidance is a notary who is also an attorney. As a notary your only duty is to perform the notarial act and complete the notarial certificate. (You may, however, show the signer a certificate.)
No. A Texas notary may not prepare, draft, select, or give advice concerning legal documents. This is an unlawful practice called the "unlicensed practice of law" and is punishable by law.
The primary responsibility of a Texas notary public is to prevent fraud. This is accomplished by:
No. A Texas notary who is not commissioned as an online notary may only perform notarial acts when the signer is present at the time the transaction takes place. Remember that the primary function of a Texas notary is to prevent fraud. Notaries do this in part by requiring the personal physical presence of the signer, making a positive identification of the signer, and placing the signer under oath or affirmation, or taking the acknowledgment of the signer that the document was signed willingly for the purposes stated in it. Often, forgeries occur because the notary fails to require the document signer to be present for the notarization.
Texas Notaries can notarize a handwritten document. However, the document presented must include the following:
1) identify the signer;
2) include statements;
3) have a signature line for the signer; and
4) contain a notarial certificate.
No. A Texas notary CANNOT notarize his or her own signature.
There is no specific answer to this question in the state statutes; you must determine if you have any financial or beneficial interest in the transaction.
There is no statute that addresses this question, but the general rule is that a Texas notary cannot perform a notarization on any document in which he or she is a party to the instrument or in which he or she has a personal or financially beneficial interest in the transaction.
Any document requiring an oath or affirmation must be signed in the presence of the Texas notary. A document requiring an acknowledgment of a signature may have been signed prior to the appearance of the signer before the Texas notary, but in order for the acknowledgment to be made, the signer must again appear before the notary to acknowledge that he or she signed the document. A Texas notary may not complete any notarial certificate without the appearance of the signer at the time the notarial act takes place and the certificate is completed.
No. The notary should simply request that the signer sign the document again. The notary may add a note in their record book, "second signature at the request of the notary" or something to that effect.
No. Do not notarize a signature on a document containing blank spaces. The signer should complete the blanks or seek legal counsel for advice.
No. A Texas notary who is not an attorney should only complete a notarial certificate which is already printed on the document. If a notary public is presented with a document without a certificate and the notary makes the decision of which certificate to attach, that notary public would be "practicing law without a license".
No. These are recordable documents, and a certified copy can only be issued by the governmental agency that is a custodian of these records. However, a Texas notary has the authority to certify copies of original documents that are not recordable in the public records.
Yes. A Texas notary has statewide jurisdiction and may perform notarial acts in any county in the state of Texas.
You may notarize signatures on documents that originate in other states if you perform the notarial act in Texas.
No. Texas notaries are not authorized to perform marriage ceremonies.
No. Once a document is notarized, it must not be altered. If changes are necessary, a new document must be executed with a new notarization. All steps must be followed properly, including the personal appearance of the signers involved.
No. Notarial certificates must bear the date the notarization took place.
A Texas notary can refuse to notarize if:
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