ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Leaving the notary seal and certificate with the employer upon termination of
employment - ✔✔employer can pay for all of it but cannot cancel it once you leave
Top 10 Mistakes of Notaries Public
✔✔Executing "materially incomplete" certificates - ✔✔say what happened: who signed,
where, when, what (notarial language)
Top 10 Mistakes of Notaries Public
✔✔Notarial certificate - ✔✔the part of the document that includes the notarial language,
notary signature, and seal
what the notary completes
✔✔Signature Witnessing - ✔✔just witness a voluntary signature
✔✔Bond - ✔✔commission not in place until oath and bond in place
$5000 for a term of four years
✔✔Powers and limitations - ✔✔a notary can do a jurat, acknowledgement, signature
witnessing, copy certification, and oath and affirmation
if it is not listed, it can't be performed as a notary
✔✔Form of notarial certificate for document notarization - ✔✔look through formats for
specific wording for each act
✔✔Disqualifications - ✔✔cannot perform notarial act if is a signer on the document,
named in the document, will receive direct compensation from a financial or real
property transaction
unless its a self proved will or I'm an attorney or escrow agent
✔✔Inspection of journal- safekeeping and custody of the journal - ✔✔journal should
only be kept by the notary
employer cannot ask for the journal after employee has stopped working
the max you should keep the journal for is 10 years