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Foundational Fridays: Navigating Expired IDs and Credible Witnesses
Description
Making sure you can correctly identify a signer is the most important part of your job. In this episode, Eddie Montes Travis and Marylyn Lee Trotter explain how to handle tricky situations when a client presents an identification card that is no longer current or lacks a photo ID altogether.
- • Expired Identification: Learn the specific rules regarding when an out-of-date ID can be accepted and the common grace periods allowed by different states.
- • The Role of Credible Witnesses: Understand the legal process of using one or two people to vouch for a signer's identity when traditional documents are unavailable.
- • State Law Variations: Discover why it is crucial to check your local statutes as identification requirements vary significantly across the country.
- • Journal Entry Best Practices: See how to accurately record witness information and ID details to ensure your notary journal stands up to legal scrutiny.
By mastering these foundational techniques, you will be prepared for any signing and can provide professional service to every client. Knowing how to use credible witnesses or handle an expired ID keeps your business running smoothly. Please subscribe and like the podcast!
Show Notes:
• Criteria for accepting expired government-issued identification.
• Step-by-step guide to using credible witnesses for identity verification.
• Difference between one and two credible witnesses depending on state law.
• Properly documenting non-standard identification in a notary journal.
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Executive Producer Derrick Spruill
Writers Marylyn Lee Trotter and Eddie Montes Travis
Graphics & Illustrations by Eddie Montes Travis
Music by Thomas Bynum
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