Category: Notary Services

People arrive expecting the notary to be their witness. Sometimes that works, and on the documents where it matters most, it is specifically forbidden.

Newly elected officials, fire company officers and board members all have to be sworn in. In Pennsylvania that is a notarial act, and it takes about a minute.

The stamp on your document is not decoration. Pennsylvania prescribes exactly what it must show — and reading it takes about ten seconds.

A seller who cannot reach the notary does not have to sink the sale. Pennsylvania has a power of attorney built specifically for vehicle paperwork.

A refinance package can run to a hundred pages. Four or five of them need a notary — and the notary is the one person in the room who cannot answer questions about the rest.

Grandparents raising grandchildren, kinship carers, families doubling up — all of them eventually meet a form that has to be sworn in front of a notary.

Every notarization you have ever had is written in somebody’s book. A rule change in March 2026 changed what that book is allowed to contain.

Pennsylvania is unusual: a will signed by you alone is valid. The catch arrives years later at probate, when someone has to find the witnesses you never had.

A notary cannot identify a company — only the human signing for it. That single fact explains most of what goes wrong with corporate notarizations.

A signer who cannot hold a pen has not lost the right to sign. Pennsylvania recognises a mark and signing by direction — with safeguards worth understanding first.