No doubt, you have certainly been faced with questions surrounding notary witnesses. Documents you are notarizing must also be witnessed and your clients assume you can do both. Can you?
Maybe, but, that depends on your stateโs laws. Ideally, you should seek another party to witness and not serve as both. The reason being is that you want to avoid any interpretation of a conflict of interest. As such, it is recommended to maintain no connection between who is the witness and who is the notary. You want to uphold being a neutral party to the signing of the documents.
๏ปฟSo, what do you do in a situation where a witness is not present or you need to have a witness or sometimes even two witnesses on the document?
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