If you’re drafting an estate plan, buying a home, adopting a child or completing another legal or official transaction, you might be tasked with finding a notary to authenticate certain important ...

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 ...

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 ...

Online notarization became legal in Ohio in September of 2019. The ability to manage a document online simplifies the entire process if you need a notarized signature – especially during the COVID-19 ...

Getting a document legally notarized while on the go is now said to be easier than ever thanks to a new application called Notarize which has been around for a while but has just now finally launched ...

Every year, hundreds of millions of documents are notarized in the United States: wills, mortgages, citizenship forms, handgun applications. And since the founding of this nation, notarizations have ...

Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and blog posts. He writes CNET's popular Cheapskate blog and co-hosts Protocol 1: A Travelers Podcast (about the TV show ...

If you're drafting an estate plan, buying a home, adopting a child or completing another legal or official transaction, you might be tasked with finding a notary to authenticate certain important ...

Individuals buying a home, adopting a child, completing estate planning documents such as wills and advanced health care directives, or completing any number of legal procedures may find themselves in ...