When a California Notary Public is presented with a Power of Attorney form to notarize it rarely has the legally correct CA notary verbiage pre-printed on the form.
The public seems to download Power of Attorney forms from the Internet or buys them at a stationary store and the wording that was added to our Acknowledgment certificate in 2008 (and continuing forward) is not on most Power of Attorney forms I notarize.
CA added in 2008, the following verbiage for Acknowledgments: I certify under Penalty of Perjury under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing paragraph is true and correct.
I think CA notaries should be prepared to add a California All-Purpose Certificate of Acknowledgment with our 2008 law change.
Joan Bergstrom Riverside CA Mobile Notary
http://www.joanbergstromnotarypublic.com
951-522-4919
830 Via Mesa Verde
Riverside, CA 92507
Hi Joan, I have been adding California Acknowledgments for quite awhile now if the POA contains old notary wording.
Hi Denise
Most of the time when a CA lawyer prepares the Power of Attorney the wording is CA compliant; but not all the time.
How is the loan signing business going in Santa Clarita?
Hi, Joan
You are right, as always.
I handle lots of Calif real estate purchases here in WA and even the title/escrow companies in Calif are using old forms. Grrrrrrr.
Plus I must add an extra sentence to make it WA compliant.
Few Canadians are using loans for their purchases. I love working for our true clients: the buyers and sellers, not the financial/real estate industry.
Hope your loan and non-loan businesses are doing well. -LauraV
Hi Joan,
The loan signing business is slowing down a little in my area. So far, June has been a little quiet - Just a couple here and there. April and May were very busy months for purchase loans.
Hopefully, things will pick up again since they extended the tax credit to homebuyers. That should increase more "purchase" loan signings. Let's hope :-)
Regards,
Denise O'Dell
Hopefully by now, most forms have been correct...do you have a correct "power of attorney" that you could email me...I would greatly appreciated it...
Effective January 1, 2015, every certificate of acknowledgment, jurat, and proof of execution by a subscribing witness must include the following disclaimer. The disclaimer must be legible in an enclosed box at the top of the certificate above the venue statement.
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