Reply by PAW Notary Services on 11/16/04 10:55pm
Msg #11471
NEVER BACKDATE!! It is illegal to do so. Your certificates must be dated on the day you perform the notarial act.
I don't understand your statement "Docs were returned to me to be redrawn." If docs are redrawn, then the lender has recreated the document set and that NEW set is then sent to you for you to complete the signing, with the date of the new signing. Docs probably reflect the correct date as well, if they were redrawn.
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Reply by Ted_MI on 11/17/04 10:21am
Msg #11499
DHM,
Let me make a constructive suggestion. Not backdating docs is a pretty basic principle. I would suggest you now and then try to familiarize yourself with your state's notary laws. NNA puts out a series of primers on the notary laws in various states. Don't know if there is one for the state you are in. I have their primer for the State of Michigan. I carry it with me when I go to do a signing in case a problem did come up. And then every now and then I will go through it. It is not real long - about fifty pages, I recollect.
Incidentally one time having the primer with me turned out to be invaluable. I was asked by a young woman to notarize a document. Well, it turned out she was a minor (which I was not aware of). So that raises the question could I notarize her signature? It basically comes down to the whole issue of identification. She was 16 1/2 and had a current Michigan drivers license, so yes I could identify her.
Please take this advice in the spirit in which it was intended. Best wishes.
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