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notary at bank refused to notarize a quit claim deed

Posted on: 04th Jan, 2008 11:57 am
my husband and i went to the main branch of washington mutual bank in our town in washington state. we did some business and then asked the bank manager to notarize a quit claim deed. we were quit claiming some property into our revocable trust. immediately, she said, oh, we no longer are permitted to notarize quit claim deeds-- when we asked why she said it was bank policy. she even went so far as to say that the title companies were refusing to do them unless the document was drawn by their own escrow dept. what is going on? i thought the only thing a notary seal asserted was that the folks signing the document acutally were the people named on the document. if quit claim deeds are being abused, why would it be the fault of the notaries???
Hi lindagorsuch,

Welcome to the forum.

When you make any property transfer you should better take help from attorney. The attorney will prepare the deed for you. And for the notarization you can go to the court directly and there you can take help from the notary public for notarization.

Best of luck,
Larry
Posted on: 04th Jan, 2008 03:13 pm
Hi,

Welcome to Mortgagefit discussion board.

How can she decline you to notarize. A notary public is actually a public servant who can't decline anyone only for the sole reason that the person is not his client.

Do let me know if you have any other questions.

Thanks
Blue
Posted on: 04th Jan, 2008 03:27 pm
Hello Lindagorsuch,

There are legal issues associated with notarization so the bank might have changed their policy and may not want to involve themselves in legal complications.

You may consult an attorney and get the deed notarized.
Posted on: 05th Jan, 2008 02:09 am
She was on company time and that was company policy.
Other than that, she probably could have notarized on her own time if she did notary work privately.
As long as the laws of the state of Washington were followed and it was a proper form according to your state statutes there was no other reason to decline it.
Posted on: 06th Jan, 2008 10:57 am
Hi Redrobin,

Welcome to the forums.

I will agree with you here. Perhaps the notary being a part of the bank couldn't notarize because the former may have changed it's policies or it's notarization isn't approved by the state anymore.

Linda, regarding the title companies asking to get the deed drafted by their escrow dept, I would say that's not unusual. If you avail the notary services of a title company, naturally it would want you to get the deed drafted too, by their attorney.

I think it's better if Linda approaches an attorney to draft the deed and then either through him or herself seeks the services of a private notary.

Good luck!
Posted on: 07th Jan, 2008 04:54 am
Go to another notary.
Posted on: 20th Jan, 2008 04:09 pm
mY lawyer drew up a probate of deed with a court in new Mexico, and I took it to get the pages notarized:
I went to my Bank, Wells Fargo, in California,. They did all Notaries EXCEPT,

The following pages:
Eleventh Judicial District Court
Letters Of Administration And Acceptance

I was told that they will not Notarize these because they must be signed by the Clerk Of The District Court, before they can notarize the pages.

My lawyer said that the bank is wrong and they need to notarize that page so they can submit it to the court. They notarized many other pages, but refused this one.

My Lawyer said just Fed-Ex the forms back to him and he will take care of it.. I think the bank people are full of it...

Do Notarizes have to be retrained when they are clueless, or do we just have to have them continue screwing up... what a racket notaries are, they are no more knowledgele or better than anyone on the street... just another way for the government to make money...
Posted on: 27th Sep, 2012 12:30 am
Hi Guest,

I can understand your frustration. But as your lawyer has said, you should Fed-ex the documents to him and let him handle the matter.

Thanks
Posted on: 27th Sep, 2012 10:42 pm
what even frustrates me more, if I am sick and can no longer work am dying of pancreas disease, I don't need the aggrevation over worthless land I will never see or make a dime from... the land has been in my family for 85 years... and is actually under lease to a mining company... but they stopped mining there ages ago... it's just rattlesnakes and tumbleweeds... was jsut doing a favor for my family to keep the deed current.

one of my degrees is in real estate.. and worked in the industry for a few years, a long time ago, both in banks, in sales and marketing, as an agent, and in Due Dilegence in auditing savings and loans documents in the warehousing of mortgages from many different states..... so it's not like I don't know anything... of course I didn't argue with these children running the bank,, they seemed to be less than 30 years old in the bank.. I just thank you, to the people in the Bank, and sent the papers back to my lawyer after a brief conversation about my experiennce with the Wells Fargo Notary...
Posted on: 28th Sep, 2012 05:54 am
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