You did the right thing. Too often people forget that our duties as notaries have nothing to do with our duties as signing agents. Just look at Maggie Mae's posts in this thread, her main goal seems to be getting the loan signing completed instead of following notary law.
While I personally can't see the big deal about allowing an obvious name derivitave like Kathy vs. Katherine, there's nothing I can see in the handbook that allows us the flexibility to do this.
It's just another case of the LO trying to pass the buck. If they ran into this problem before and they STILL sent out docs with the incorrect name, they have nobody to blame but themselves. Don't even give it a second thought. |