Go to www.sos.ca.gov, and at the top of the page, click on Notary and Authentication. There are instructions on how to obtain the required certificate. If you click on Processing Times, right now, if you do it over-the-counter in Sacramento, they do it while you wait, and if you send it by mail, it takes more than a week plus mail transit time. I use a service in Sacramento called California Lenders' and Attorneys' Service, www.clasinfo.com. They can do it for you over-the-counter. I don't know their fee, but it is probably more than $50.00.
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Do you have a revocable living trust to protect your heirs against probate? Probate takes forever, is expensive, and is annoying. Do your family a favor. Set up a trust, and put all your property, especially any real property, into the trust. Since it is revocable, you can change it, add to it, take property out of it, or even cancel it completely, at any time. We set up such trusts, provide a pour-over will as a back-up for any property that does not make it into the trust, provide you with blank durable powers of attorney for health care and financial decisions, in case you become incapable of making such decisions while still alive, and convey one piece of real property to the trust, usually the family home, for $1500.00. If you would like to hire me to do this, let me know, and I'll send you a list of the information I need.
Dana Sack
Answered on May 31st, 2017 at 1:26 PM