NOTARIES PUBLIC

• Draft contracts
• Prepare promissory notes
• Draw up wills
• Mortgages and other legal documents.
• Administer oaths
• Take affidavits and depositions
• Witness and certify the validity of signatures on documents.
• They also arrange probates and administer the estates of deceased persons.

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  Paralegals, Independent Paralegals, Legal Assistants,

  Notary, Notaries Public

  Trademark Agents

Notaries perform some or all of the following duties:

• Administer oaths and take affidavits and depositions
• Notaries public administer oaths, take affidavits, sign legal documents and perform other activities according to the limitations of their appointment.
• Witness and certify the validity of signatures on documents
• Notaries public prepare promissory notes, wills, mortgages and other legal documents.
• May draft contracts, prepare promissory notes and draw up wills, mortgages and other legal documents
• May arrange probates and administer the estates of deceased persons.
• Notaries public are appointed after examination and certification of their qualifications by the governing judiciary in their province or territory. All appointments have specific limitations on the activities they can perform and for specific periods of time.
• Notaries public require a provincial licence.
• Notaries public usually receive in-house training and perform their duties in rural or remote areas or in the business offices in which they are employed.