When you’re juggling immigration forms, court petitions, or out-of-state school applications, you may run into the phrase ...

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 ...

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 ...

A notary public carries a legal commission to witness signatures and, in most states, will place a notary seal on signed documents. Although most official documents do not need notarized signatures, a ...

Individuals often go to a notary public to have an official witness the signing and validation of important documents such as title deeds, trusts or wills. Organizations may need to have certain ...