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We provide full Notary services. With over 14 years of experience, our notaries will provide a comfortable and professional signing experience and will ensure that paperwork is completed. In order for us to complete the Notarization of your documents, you need to present a valid Identification
1. An identification card or driver’s license issued by the California Department of Motor Vehicles;
2. A United States passport;
3. Another California-approved identification card, consisting of any one of the following, provided that it also contains a photograph, description of the person, signature of the person, and an identifying number:
(a) A driver’s license issued by another state or a Mexican or Canadian driver’s license.
(b) An identification card issued by another state.
(c) A passport issued by a foreign government provided that it has been stamped by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, such identification can only be used for US immigration documents only.
There are three most common type of notary, California Notary Acknowledgment and Jurat Information
Jurat information
A Jurat is a type of notary act where the signer must swear under oath before a notary public. Jurat certificate wording must accompany all Jurat notary acts either within the document itself. after the signature area(s), or on an attached certificate form. The new California Jurat requires the signer to be positively identified. It no longer allows the signer to be identified on the basis of being personally known to the Notary. Here is the new California Jurat wording below. Also, find below the template for the Copy of Certification by a Document Custodian.
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Jurat
A notary public or other officer completing this certificate verifies only the identity of the individual who signed the
document, to which this certificate is attached, and not the truthfulness, accuracy, or validity of that document.
State of California)
County of ___________)
Subscribed and sworn to ( or affirmed ) before me on this ____________ day of _____________, 20___ by ___________________________________, proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the person who appeared before me.
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( Signature of Notary )
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Acknowledgment information
An acknowledgment is a notary act where the signer acknowledges signing a document before a notary public. The act of presenting a signed document before a notary public and asking the notary public to notarize the signature constitutes acknowledging signing the document. The document may be signed before being in the presence of the notary, however, the signer must appear before the notary public to sign the notary journal and receive the affixation of the notary seal on the notary certificate. The words "personally known to me" have been removed from the new acknowledgment wording. Perhaps there was too much ambiguity as to how well you have to know a person before they are "personally known". I found that with strangers, if you meet them a few times for notaries, and then meet them another time, you will remember them. However, if you see them several years later, you will not remember them. Therefore, it seems that proper identification makes better sense than personally knowing someone. Failure to get a signer properly identified constitutes perjury and could lead to a fine, since you could not have positively identified them without proper identification. Here is the new wording for a California acknowledgment certificate.
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California acknowledgment certificate
A notary public or other officer completing this certificate verifies only the identity of the individual who signed the
document, to which this certificate is attached, and not the truthfulness, accuracy, or validity of that document.
State of California)
County of _____________ )
On _________ before me, __________________, (name of notary public ) personally appeared ___________________________________who proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the person(s) whose name(s) is/are subscribed to the within instrument and who acknowledged to me that he/she/they executed the same in his/her/their authorized capacity(ies), and by his/her/their signature(s) on the instrument the person(s), or entity upon behalf of which the person(s) acted, executed the instrument.
I certify under PENALTY of PERJURY under the laws of the state of California that the foregoing paragraph is true and correct.
WITNESS my hand and official seal.
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(Signature of Notary)
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Copy Certification by Document Custodian
State of California,
County of San Francisco.
I, _____________________ hereby declare that the attached reproduction of __________________________________ is/are a true, correct, and complete photocopy of a document in my possession or control.
Sign:_________________________________
California Jurat
A notary public or other officer completing this certificate verifies only the identity of the individual who signed the
document, to which this certificate is attached, and not the truthfulness, accuracy, or validity of that document.
State of California }
County of ___________ }
Subscribed and sworn to (or affirmed) before me on this Month Day Year, by ______________ proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the person(s) who appeared before me.
NOTARY PUBLIC SIGNATURE
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