Posted by SilverPenny on 8/15/08 11:11am
Msg #260176

county of / acting in the county (parish of )

Hi there everyone...I am little confused and please help....
I need to fill in the following and I am confused between "county of" and "Acting in the county/Parish of". Do I put in the county where I notized the paper in the "county of" and where I was qalified in "acting in the county /parish" ? or it is reversed? Thank you

Reply by rengel/CA on 8/15/08 11:24am
Msg #260179

The county your feet are in at the time of notarization. : )

It is always the county that the notarization takes place in, it doesn't matter what county you were comissioned in.

Reply by Gerry_VT on 8/15/08 1:59pm
Msg #260199

I wouldn't consider answering until the entire passage is posted (with names changed to protect privacy). Also, doesn't New York have mandatory wording of acknowledgements (at least in some cases)?

Reply by MikeC/NY on 8/15/08 4:49pm
Msg #260250

Is this on a mortgage or other document relating to the conveyance of real property located in NY? If so, NY has specific wording that is required, and it doesn't sound like what you've got is compliant. I would strike the notarial block and attach a loose certificate that IS compliant.

If not, you could fill in both blanks with the name of the county your feet are in - the venue and the county you're acting in are the same, aren't they? Your stamp must have the name of the county you qualified in, but I don't think that's what they're asking for...

Reply by Maureen_nh on 8/15/08 11:03pm
Msg #260278

Be prepared to get more confused.
This ack is for states that have their notaries commissioned in one county but can act in others. There are are states where you can only act in your own and maybe a few other counties.
Now you will find in some loan pkgs up to six or seven different forms of acks and jurats.

Brilliant

Reply by MichiganAl on 8/16/08 2:24pm
Msg #260340

I didn't know this question could cause so much confusion.

If there is only one line for the county, County of _________, use the county you're standing in. If it has two lines like this:

County of ________
Acting in the county of ___________

Fill it in like this:

County of (the county in which you are commissioned)
Acting in the county of (the county you are in when performing the notarization)

Reply by Jillian Shaw on 8/20/08 1:34pm
Msg #260834

I just had an issue like this today. It was a dual closing, the co-borrower sign in California on the 16th, the Notary FedExed the documents to Maine... I signed the borrower today (the 20th). All of the documents were pre-printed with State of Maine, County of Androscoggin... Well as far as Maine guidelines go, the California notary shouldn't have signed the docs unless she changed that information to State of California County of Los Angeles. I ended up calling the California Secretary of State's office to file a complaint against that Notary, (it wasn't the only errors she made- one document she dated, "On this 8th day...". The woman told me that in California, they are not allowed to cross anything out and initial by it? WTF?!? I asked her to mail me a complaint form anyways. Anyone in California have a response?