I’m an Alabama Notary Public.
I received a phone call from a mother in California. Her daughter was married here in southern Alabama at the beginning of October. She said a friend from California notarized the Alabama Marriage Certificate at the wedding in Alabama.
She told me she realized a couple of weeks after the wedding the marriage was not legal because the notary was out of her jurisdiction and was not authorized to notarize in Alabama.
She asked me If I could notarize a new Marriage Certificate when they come back in a couple weeks. I told her yes I would be honored. She then told me that the only problem is that her daughter died 2 weeks ago.
She went on to say while crying perfusely that this has to happen, my daughter wanted this wedding, this must happen… please can you Notarize a new marriage certificate using my daughter’s original signature.
in short, I apologized and informed her that I was not able to without her daughter being present. I told her she should speak to a lawyer. She understood, thanked me and hung up.
My point is, because of this California Notary’s ignorance, this family’s dream for their daughter to be married was shattered.