Houston Notary Public Services     

With Houston On-Call Notary Services, you can always expect personal and direct attention.  We come to your home or office for meeting times within a uniquely flexible schedule.  Since 2002, Houston On-Call has built a special reputation as a source for all of your Mobile Notary Public, Record Retrieval, and related Courier needs.  Houston Notary Solutions:

                   Weekdays: 8:30 to 3:30 and 6:30 to 9:30.  Saturdays: 9:00 to 1:00.
                   Later hours for Weekend Notary calls are available with your notice.
                   For "basic" Mobile Notary Services, most appointments are set and 
                   fulfilled in two hours, or less, depending on our volume.  For "hourly"  
                   situations, a one day notice is requested (regarding new customers).

                                                                                                                                       
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                                                   Houston Mobile Notary:
                                          Medical Records, Affidavits, &/or D.Qs.
                                         Powers of Attorney, Wills, Verifications
                                         Notary for Acknowledgements & Oaths
                                         Record Retrieval & Business Subpoena 
                                                                            
                                                   Houston Notary & Process:                                     
                                         Subpoenas and Citations (Non-Evasive)   
                                         Mobile Notary Public & Records Return
                                         Notarized Documents Mailing Services 
                                         Drops: UPS, FedEx, USPS, Lone Star                                                                                                                                       
                                                    

Houston Notary Service Terms:

A Notary Public is a public servant with statewide jurisdiction - authorized to take acknowledgments, protest instruments permitted by law to be protested, administer oaths, take depositions, and certify copies of documents not recordable in the public records.

As an officer of the State of Texas, the primary duty of a Notary Public is to show a disinterested party (the Notary Public) has admonished the signer of an instrument as to the importance of such document, and the signer of such document has declared that his/her identity, his/her signature and his/her reasons for signing such instrument are genuine.  The signature and seal of a Notary Public do not prove these facts conclusively, but do provide prima facie proof of them, and allow persons in trade and commerce to rely upon the truth and veracity of the Notary Public as a third party who has no personal interest in the transaction.


                                                                    

Acknowledgments:

A formal declaration before an authorized official (a Notary Public) by a person signing an instrument that such execution is his/her free act and deed.  The term also refers to the notary's certificate on the document indicating that it was so acknowledged.

Acknowledgment Sample ( for a natural person person acting in his/her own right):

State of Texas
County of  __________

This instrument was acknowledged before me on  __________,
by ____________________

(Notary Public's Signature)
(Personalized Notary Seal)

Affiant:

The person making an affidavit.

Affidavit:

A document that contains a statement promising the truthfulness of the document under penalties of perjury, made under oath or affirmation, signed for by the affiant in the presence of a Notary, and including a jurat signed and sealed by the Notary.

Affirmation:

A solemn statement of truth made under penalties of perjury, equivalent by law to an oath, 
but without religious significance or reference to a Supreme Being.

Note that an affidavit may appear in two forms:
An affirmed affidavit with Affirmation
A sworn affidavit with Oath

Attest:

To bear witness to, sign a document as a witness, or to certify.

Jurat:

The clause written at the foot of an affidavit or document stating when, where and before  whom such affidavit was sworn or affirmed.  The expiration date of the Notary Public's commission is commonly included.

Jurat Sample:

State of Texas
County of __________

Sworn to and ascribed before me on the __________ day of 
__________, (year).

(Notary Public's Signature)
(Personalized Notary Seal) 

Commission expires: __________ (expiration of the Notary Public's commission) 

Notarial Act: 

            Any official act that a Notary Public of this State is authorized to perform.  
            Notaries Public have authority within any county in the State of Texas to:

• Administer oaths and affirmations;
• Take acknowledgements and proofs;
• Take depositions and issue subpoenas when taking depositions;
• Certify copies of certain documents;
• Issue protests;
• Be present for the opening of a safe deposit box
  

Oath:

An external pledge or affirmation, made in verification of statements made or to be made, coupled with an appeal to a sacred or venerated object, in evidence of the seriousness and reverent state of mind of the party; an invocation to a supreme being to witness the words of the party and to visit them with punishment if they be false.

Oath Sample:

"Do you solemnly swear under penalties of perjury that the information contained in this document or statement is the truth, so help you God?"

Protest:

A statement issued by a Notary Public that a certain bill or note was presented for payment or acceptance, and such payment or acceptance was refused.  The Notary Public attests that the refuser shall be held liable for any losses arising from the dishonor of the document.

Verification:

The ascertaining of an allegation to be true; the acceptance of a Notary Public that the person appearing before him/her has been properly identified as being the person purported to be; to make sure of proper procedure and verify same; to give a verification over his/her official signature and seal where necessary to the transaction of the business.

Verification Sample:

State of Texas
County of __________

Before me, a Notary Public, on this day personally appeared
____________, known to me to be the person whose name
is subscribed to the foregoing document and, being by me
first duly sworn, declared the statements therein contained
are true and correct.

(Notary Public's Signature)
(Personalized Notary Seal) 


                     Houston On-Call operates with a business services approach.
                        We are not attorneys licensed to practice law in Texas and
                            may not give legal advice or accept fees for legal advice.