If the top of the document includes a notary block that starts with a scilicet - for instance, "State of Texas, County of:_____" - it's the notary's job to fill in that blank correctly with the name of the county in which the notarization took place. Full stop.
That's Notary 101 (or should be). The notary block belongs to the notary and is subject to state law; the client has no right to tell you how to complete it, so their instruction to make no changes to it are meaningless - asking you to state that the document was notarized in another county is technically not much different than asking you to backdate it. |
