Comment by SkyAndSand

I had the same assumption. However the last notary that I worked with didn’t hand in documents in time (which caused lots of trouble), handed in incorrect documents and simply did not answer to emails or calls for weeks.

He only started to act when I used my lawyer to threaten him. Even then my lawyer said that it would be very hard to start legal proceedings against the notary.

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