The Future Needs You

This book is about an emerging new role for the notary public, an exciting role that secures the lasting significance of the notary office by placing it at the crossroads of tradition and technology. You will read about the distinct advantages of serving the public as an Attestation Officer, which involves specific training and certification in addition to the notary training and commissions issued by states, provinces, and other jurisdictions. Of course, a strict adherence to the laws...
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This book is about an emerging new role for the notary public, an exciting role that secures the lasting significance of the notary office by placing it at the crossroads of tradition and technology. You will read about the distinct advantages of serving the public as an Attestation Officer, which involves specific training and certification in addition to the notary training and commissions issued by states, provinces, and other jurisdictions. Of course, a strict adherence to the laws of your commissioning jurisdiction is necessary. As always, a notary must know and follow the law of the commissioning jurisdiction. But just as the Notary Signing Agent designation was created by Scott and Susan Pence as an extra-jurisdictional certification to provide mortgage lenders a more uniform means of reliance on a notary's qualifications, so the Attestation Officer certification originates from outside the notary's commissioning jurisdiction. The word "Officer" in "Attestation Officer" is there to remind people that the certification is in addition to the notary's prior status as a public official, bringing duly constituted public authority to private matters; and along with it all the liabilities and responsibilities of public office. This book offers an introduction to the procedures to be followed by the Attestation Officer, a designation that every notary interested in the future of the profession will want to learn more about.