<<<If CA doesn't trust notaries to notarize on the basis that the signer is well known to the notary, CA doesn't trust it's notaries period, and should just abolish the office of notary public.>>>
Actually, personal knowledge was CA notary law until 2008 (?) and the acknowledgment did read "personally known.....". I was commissioned in Sept. 2007 so "personal knowledge" was on its way out, probably because audits demonstrated widespread abuse. I suspect CA notary law didn't clearly define "personal knowledge"
(5 minutes? 5 days? 5 years?) so notaries were quite liberal with that.
Our laws also don't specifically address ID name vs. name on doc. However, I'm of the school of thought that if the notary can get a judge to buy that he/she was **satisfied** that Mary Susanne Jones-Smith and Mary S. Jones (divorced, she claims) or that Henry Alan Johnston and Henry Allen Johnson (Oh, typos on the paperwork, he says) are the same person.....then I say GOOD LUCK.....and I hope you have great E & O coverage. |
