I recently notarized a mortgage signing in which one of the documents sent to the lender was misplaced. The signing agency has asked me to contact the signers, re-execute the document and notarize it for a past date, or, in other words, post-date the notarization. Can I do this? – P.D., Denver, Colorado
Since you are performing a new notarization, you can only input the date that you are actually notarizing the new document, not a date that came before. You should never back-date or post-date a notarial certificate; doing so is a deceptive practice and is not allowed in any state.
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