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 ...

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 ...