The way I see it, the principal who issued the POA to his/her AIF is not appearing before you. In CA the required wording for both an acknowledgment and a jurat now includes the phrase "who appeared before me", along with the name of the person whose signature we are notarizing. So the name of the principal should not go into the notary certificate - only the name of the person who IS personally appearing before you and signing the name of the principal.
This may be an entirely different rationale than saying that one person cannot take an oath for another, but it gets you to the same place. So I think the certificate language itself is all that you should need to show to anyone who is giving you grief about this. |
