The Latin Notary System was set up so that notaries could offer security and legal validity and function as legal advisers. The members of the Latin Notary System are lawyers who have been granted the power to act as qualified witnesses to the degree that when they exercise these powers the state grants legal certainty to all actions carried out in their presence. These actions are valid in any court or legal process. A notary’s primary mission is to avoid legal conflicts resulting in long and tedious legal proceedings (similar to preventive medicine specialists whose mission is try to avoid disease).
Latin notary services are in no way equivalent to the system established in the United States, Great Britain or Canada. Those systems are not set up to foresee or avoid future legal problems. The sole function of the English “Notary Public” is to certify that a certain “John Doe” signed a document. There is no profession in the United States or Canada that could be considered equivalent to the Latin-American Notary. The only conflict prevention assurance that can be obtained in those countries is through the signatures of each party’s lawyer on a specific document. The only function these two professions share is that they can certify a declaration and a signature. The American Notary carries no responsibility as to the content of a document, since they do not write them. They are not lawyers and so cannot function as legal advisors. A Notary Public in the U.S. or Canada may not have any legal background since their sole function is just to certify that the person appearing before them is in fact the person who signs the document.
The Latin Notary System is established in all or almost all continental European countries (Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Belgium, etc.), some Asian countries such as China, Japan and Singapore, all Latin American countries and the Province of Quebec in Canada. It is in the process of being accredited in certain American states such as Louisiana and Florida. There are a total of seventy-seven countries affiliated to the International Union of Notaries, based in Rome, Italy.
German Goldman S.
Principal Notary
NOTARIA DIEZ DEMARCACION UNO
Boulevard de Nayarit 70-Desps. 4 y 5. Villa 5
Nuevo Vallarta, B.B. Nay. MEXICO (63732)
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