Posted by ZeeCA on 8/21/08 11:02am
Msg #261001

FOR GA notaries

Do you have to be an attorney in GA for ALL notary work? i.e, general notary work?

thx

Reply by WDMD on 8/21/08 11:08am
Msg #261005

'Do you have to be an attorney in GA for ALL notary work? i.e, general notary work?"


If you have to be an attorney for any kind of notary work why would anybody but attorneys get commissioned?

Reply by ZeeCA on 8/21/08 11:17am
Msg #261009

Being I am not in an ATTY ONLY state... I was not sure if

this was for loan docs as they constitute legal docs or if it was all inclusive of ANY notary work...

Reply by ZeeCA on 8/21/08 11:20am
Msg #261010

OK... I found the answer... NM :) n/m

Reply by WDMD on 8/21/08 11:24am
Msg #261011

What was the answer? n/m

Reply by ZeeCA on 8/21/08 11:27am
Msg #261013

In GA you have to be an atty PERIOD. n/m

Reply by WDMD on 8/21/08 11:29am
Msg #261014

Even for general notarizations? n/m

Reply by GA/Atty on 8/21/08 11:35am
Msg #261016

No - any GA notary can notarize docs in GA (even loan docs)

It's just that a non-attorney cannot conduct a signing where there is a conveyance of an interest in real estate (including a security interest such as in a deed of trust or mortgage). So - it isn't uncommon necessarily for a non attorney to notarize loan docs here; it's just that an attorney must have been physically present to preside over the signing itself.

I guess in theory you could even have a non-attorney NSA here in GA; but then that NSA would have to drag a GA attorney around to all their closings.........

Reply by WDMD on 8/21/08 11:39am
Msg #261021

Thats what I thought,no sense getting comm if you cant do it n/m

Reply by Gerry_VT on 8/21/08 2:34pm
Msg #261085

Usefulness of notary commission without law license

Although not very applicable to the people who usually contribute to this forum, there is a fairly common real-estate scenario where it is useful to have a notary commission even though the notary is not an lawyer. Mr A. is moving away, but his house has not yet been sold, so he wants to give a POA to his lawyer, so Mr. A does not have to return to Georgia for the closing when the house eventually sells. So the lawyer draws up the POA, Mr. A. comes into the law office, and executes the POA. However, the lawyer can't notarize it, because he is named in it, so he has his paralegal, who has a notary commission, notarize it.

Reply by The Notary National Signers on 8/21/08 11:26am
Msg #261012

No you don't.

Reply by Linda_H/FL on 8/21/08 11:32am
Msg #261015

For general notary work, no..you do not have to be

an attorney....

For anything involving the conveyance of property (including the conveyance of a security interest) yes, a notary is required...and they are required to be physically present - telephone presence does not meet the standards set by the GA UPL statute.

Reply by ZeeCA on 8/21/08 11:36am
Msg #261017

I called the GA SOS office and they told me you have to be

an atty to be a notary... so they are as accurate as calling the CA SOS??????

Reply by GA/Atty on 8/21/08 11:37am
Msg #261019

They are full of S...................weet Tea! n/m

Reply by ZeeCA on 8/21/08 11:42am
Msg #261025

LOL... GA I sent you a pm for some GA info ... tx n/m

Reply by Linda_H/FL on 8/21/08 11:38am
Msg #261020

Sure sounds like it, Zee.... n/m

Reply by PAW on 8/21/08 1:04pm
Msg #261057

GA SOS no longer handles Notaries

According the GA SOS, the Office of Secretary of State has transferred responsibility for most of the statewide obligations related to Notaries Public, including the issuance of the international certificate of authentication (Apostille), to the Georgia Superior Court Clerks' Cooperative Authority (GSCCCA) http://www.gsccca.org/

Reply by Linda_H/FL on 8/21/08 11:37am
Msg #261018

correction...s/b "an attorney is required..."..duh..:) n/m