By
NNA Staff
on June 21, 2011
Court interpreters play an important role in cases when a person giving testimony cannot speak English. The Legal Professionals Section spoke with Franklyn Salimbene, a senior lecturer in law at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts, and the former director of Bentley’s legal and medical interpreter program, about the duties of court interpreters and how they are very similar to, but separate, from Notaries.
By
NNA Staff
on June 21, 2011
The Financial & Corporate Services Section spoke with Professor Paul Fiorelli, Director of the Cintas Institute for Business Ethics and Professor of Legal Studies at Xavier University, and also a Notary, about how Notaries might respond when confronted with improper notarial requests.
By
NNA Staff
on June 21, 2011
With national healthcare reform underway, questions are arising about the how healthcare documents and patient information will be shared between different states.
By
NNA Staff
on June 21, 2011
Traveling to the homes and offices of strangers is central to Notary Signing Agents services. The overwhelming majority of assignments go smoothly, but from time to time potentially dangerous situations arise.
By
NNA Staff
on June 21, 2011
Notaries working in healthcare or senior living facilities often interact with patients suffering from dementia — a malady that diminishes a person’s ability to sign and understand documents. To ensure your notarizations are sound, it’s important to understand the effects this condition could have on your signers.
By
NNA Staff
on June 21, 2011
Attorneys General in California, Utah, and Illinois have joined other states and federal regulators in taking more aggressive actions against banks and lenders involved in the foreclosure crisis.
By
NNA Staff
on June 16, 2011
The federal government has announced an unprecedented, multi-agency, nationwide initiative targeting immigration assistance scams and the unauthorized practice of law — often involving individuals falsely holding themselves out as Notarios Publicos.
By
NNA Staff
on June 14, 2011
Arizona has become the first state to enact a law that permits Notaries to communicate indirectly with a signer via a translator.
By
NNA Staff
on June 14, 2011
Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler and a number of his counterparts from Texas, New Jersey and Washington other states have launched campaigns in conjunction with a historic, multi-agency federal initiative to combat immigration assistance fraud.
By
NNA Staff
on June 10, 2011