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September 15, 2016

One signing — two venues?

Filed under: Technical & Legal — Tags: , — admin @ 11:27 am

It happened many years ago. I had to do a split signing, but not for a split level building thank God. The husband was in Orange County, but the wife was in Ventura. Some marriage they must have had — but, I couldn’t say anything because — I’m just the Notary!

I couldn’t figure out what to put in the venue though. The signing was happening all on the same day, so technically, I could use one Acknowledgment. The signing company insisted that I only use one Notary Acknowledgment for both signers even though the law allows for the use of one per person. Legally, it is cleaner, but not necessarily more legal to do the signing using two separate acknowledgments since each signer was in a different county. But, the signing company recommended something completely different.

Put two counties in the venue? What? Yes, this is exactly what the signing company asked me to do after talking to one of their Notary experts on their panel of in-house specialists. I was to put:

State of California
County of Ventura & Orange

The surprising thing is that the county clerk didn’t complain about this. Lucky me. They could have thrown the whole signing back in our face on a whim but they didn’t. Perhaps because my seal was not smudgy. But, this will be a great story to tell my grandchildren if I ever have any. But, you can’t have grandchildren if you don’t have children and you can’t have (legitimate) children without a wife. Boy, I’ve got to get myself a girlfriend and fast!

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2 Comments »

  1. This should not be filed under -Technical and Legal- It belongs in Fantasy and Humor.

    Comment by Kenneth Edelstein — September 18, 2016 @ 1:48 am

  2. Always remember, signing companies don’t care what kind of legal predicament they put you in, they are NOT your boss, and as I always told them, the Secretary of State is my only boss and they say to put on 2 separate acknowledgements in this case which is what we are supposed to do whenever people are signing in two different locations, same day doesn’t matter, and especially if its in another county, you need 2 separate acknowledgements.

    Comment by Dan Serbin — November 21, 2016 @ 2:29 am

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