| It IS done in California, in fact it is the FIRST DUTY of a Notary Public if you look up duties of a notary public in the government code and in the Notary Handbook. It is a DUTY, not an option to present bills for payment and certify the dishonor thereof, If we are not supposed to be doing it, why is it still there and the FIRST duty? I do it all the time. I don't prepare the documents for people, but I stamp, sign and mail for them. Once I was able to defend against an attack by the California Bar association who was trying to frighten me out of doing it, but I was able to explain my understanding and he admitted I was doing nothing wrong. if you don't want to do it, send them to me, I am ok with it. Many notaries are NOT, though and when I called the National Notary Association to ask about this after the first time I was asked to do it for someone and I was a bit uncomfortable, I was told "we don't do that any more, it is old law". Well, if it is old law, it has not been modified and when I read the code myself, I realized we COULD do it, it is just not something they want people to do. Usually notaries who work for banks and some title companies are the only ones taught to do this. |
