What exactly is the job of a Notary Public? Many customers ask what a Notary Public, and a notarization does, and why it is required by different agencies and legal purposes. A Notary Public’s job is to identify the signer of a document, and therefore prove that the signer was presented before them in person, showed ID, and said that they executed, or did execute in person, the document that is being signed and notarized. The Notary Public’s job is also, when requested, to give the signer an oath before he/she signs the documents, which loosely means that the signer went before the Notary Public and swore under penalty of perjury that everything within the document is true to the best of their knowledge.
The Notary Public plays a very crucial role in many business industries, such as in real estate, mortgages, law, and even science. the notarization provides more assurance to a lender that the person who is requesting a loan, or the person who is selling/buying a house (view here to see for yourself), is actually who they claim to be, and that they personally were the ones to sign the documents. Notarization does help the fight to reduce fraud, and therefore we follow the California Secretary of State Guidelines strictly and by the book to ensure all the laws are abided by and notarizations are valid.