Hello,
This is my first signing. I do have a question and I’m hoping someone can answer it for me. Where it says ‘Title’ on the Notary Acknowledgment. Do you put Notary Public? Sounds like a silly question but I want to be sure and not have any issues.
Thank You!
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Some acknowledgment forms will already have the words “Notary Public” preprinted after the blank space for your name. In that case you don’t have to add it. Only add it if it’s not already there.
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Thank You for taking the time to answer this!
NOTARY PUBLIC is your title, for sure Best wishes for every success. Be sure to review your state’s notary handbook over and over until you are an ACE NOTARY PUBLIC.
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Can you add the wording of the acknowledgement certificate, with the name of the client banked out? Due to the wide variety of forms out there, it’s hard to be sure what you mean without seeing the form.
I added a photo of the page. Would you also be signing and stamping this sort of document ?
@antoinette.mangione is that page attached to any document? Or are you being asked to sign and stamp this loose cert all by itself
But to answer your question, if this was the form from your OP, yes, the title is Notary public. However, never provide a signed and stamped loose cert with no association with any document.
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An acknowledgement must have some form of the word “acknowledge” in the body of the certificate. Having the word at the top of the page isn’t good enough. I don’t know what words are not shown in your photo, but if I’m asked to use a certificate for an acknowledgement that doesn’t say “acknowledge” or some version of that word, I would tell the person asking for the notarization that I will use the Vermont short form acknowledgement certificate provided in Vermont law.
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Hello. I have to respectfully disagree. When doing signings, in CA that I know, even if it’s printed on the form, you have to write your name and adding Notary Public after it.
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Not according to your handbook - pages 12-14 - only your signature is required - unless further instructions are contained in the newsletter your SoS puts out.
(https://notary.cdn.sos.ca.gov/forms/notary-handbook-current.pdf)
If the form has “________________________________________________, Notary Public”, I fill in my name in the blank space. To add “, Notary Public” after you fill in your name means the form is reading “Your Name, Notary Public, Notary Public”. What sense does that make? In any case, I’ve been just entering my name in those instances for the last 8 1/2 years and nobody has ever said anything about it. I intend to keep doing it that way.
Now, if the form reads “__________________________________________(Insert name and title of officer in this space)”, THEN I enter “My Name, Notary Public”.
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Thank You for the advice
If the sheet is the Patriot act, then it should be “Signing Agent” as your title.
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I have done over 1,000 signings during 2020 and 2021 and I always put Notary Public as my title. Not one company has said anything. In my opinion I am a Notary Public acting as a Signing Agent. Just a thought….
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Yes, you are a notary public when your are notarizing a form. Signing agent when you’re not.
But when you fill out and sign that Patriot Act form, for example, you are doing it in your capacity as a Signing Agent, not a Notary Public - unless you’re instructed to notarize the form.
When you work this business you wear several hats, all very separate and distinct. If you’re signing anything as a Notary Public there better be notarial language and a notarial cert involved.
my $.02 FWIW
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Hmmm not sure I agree 100%. I see what you are saying but I have signed a variety of documents titled notary public that are not being notarized. I always sign and stamp the notarial act after asking if they acknowledge or swear to the document.
Can you post an example of a document that you are signing that is not being notarized (with all private information blacked out). I’m not sure I understand what you are getting at.
I don’t keep documents. I do signings for a lot of different states and title companies. They all have forms specific to them or that state. Some of them ask for me to fill in info and sign. Not notarizing anything.