Nothing in CA notary law addresses making corrections to a notary certificate. In 2020, the SOS at the time added a paragraph about that in a newsletter, stating the fact that our laws don't have any provisions for making corrections to notary certificates for a COMPLETED notarial act. I assume that means once it's been sent off or given to a client.
While completing a notarization, if presented with a notary certificate that doesn't meet our state's requirements, the CA notary has the option to either correct it or replace it. Which one to do is a judgment call, based on how much is inaccurate. If it's just lining out a capacity or correcting a venue, or eliminating the name of someone not appearing before me in a split signing, I'd probably just do the correction. If the infamous 'box' is missing, and I can fit in my little stamp above the venue, then I'd do that, too. If it's substantially more, especially for recordable docs, I'd just replace it. |
| Messages in this Thread |
|  Sunday musings...why is venue important? - Lee/AR on 2/6/22 2:38pm |
|  Can't give law/quotes...just my best opinion - Linda_H/FL on 2/6/22 3:34pm |
|  Agree... so how would foreclosure (for example) happen - Lee/AR on 2/6/22 3:42pm |
|  Re: Agree... so how would foreclosure (for example) happen - VT_Syrup on 2/6/22 4:19pm |
| Real property laws are governed by the state where - Linda_H/FL on 2/6/22 4:26pm |
|  Re: Real property laws are governed by the state where - Bear900/CA on 2/7/22 12:33pm |
| Re: Sunday musings...why is venue important? - VT_Syrup on 2/6/22 4:01pm |
| Re: Sunday musings...why is venue important? - VT_Syrup on 2/6/22 4:05pm |
| Re: Sunday musings...why is venue important? - MikeC/TX on 2/6/22 6:31pm |
| Sounds reasonable...except when it's wrong - Lee/AR on 2/6/22 7:15pm |
| Hey Attorney...why is venue important? - Signerbill on 2/7/22 12:07pm |
| VENUE is only important if it's wrong, or does not appear -  Cheryl Elliott on 2/7/22 6:15pm |
| Re: VENUE is only important if it - MikeC/TX on 2/7/22 7:09pm |
| It read like NNA, but... - NVLSlady/VA on 2/7/22 7:26pm |
| You may be thinking of the CA Ack wording... - Bear900/CA on 2/7/22 7:45pm |
 | Re: It read like NNA, but... - JanetK_CA on 2/7/22 7:50pm |
|  Re: It read like NNA, but... - NVLSlady/VA on 2/8/22 9:09am |
| Re: thank you, Mike, for doing that n/m - Cheryl Elliott on 2/7/22 9:46pm |
| Re: PAW always said “venue is where your feet were planted - Carolyn Bodley on 2/7/22 6:18pm |
| Re: PAW always said “venue is where your feet were planted - Expeditor on 2/8/22 12:15pm |
| Re: Sunday musings...why is venue important? - JanetK_CA on 2/7/22 8:40pm |
| Notary venue only important to notarization block n/m - BobbiCT on 2/8/22 9:07am |
| Oops. Notary venue only important to notarization block - BobbiCT on 2/8/22 9:41am |
| THANK YOU, BobbiCT, for your excellent explanation! n/m - Lee/AR on 2/8/22 11:25am |
| Re: THANK YOU, BobbiCT, for your excellent explanation! - Cheryl Elliott on 2/8/22 12:07pm |
| Re: Sunday musings...why is venue important? - Expeditor on 2/8/22 12:02pm |
