A notary public’s job is to witness and authenticate the signing of various documents and help state governments prevent fraud and theft. As a notary public, you can work for banks, businesses, ...

A lot of documents require signatures to be signed with a notary public, from deeds to car titles to powers of attorney. Ohio law changed in September of 2019 for the process of becoming a notary ...

Portions of this article were drafted using an in-house natural language generation platform. The article was reviewed, fact-checked and edited by our editorial staff. A notary public, also simply ...

Getting a document notarized is easier and becoming a notary harder after the Notary Public Modernization Act went into effect statewide late in September. The new law modernized the notary process, ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Ebony Howard is a certified public accountant and a QuickBooks ProAdvisor tax expert. She ...

One of the most lucrative side hustles is also one of the longest-standing. The earliest evidence of notaries dates back to 2750 BC in ancient Egypt, where these chroniclers verified official ...

LANCASTER - It will soon be more expensive to become a notary public - a lot more expensive. The current fee is $15. But after Sept. 20 the cost could be as much as $150 for new commissions and $60 ...