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The legality of electronic notarizations
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Industry News, Regulatory Updates, Remote Online Notarization
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
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Technology is evolving at a rapid pace. We can do many things virtually that in years past seemed impossible — banking, visiting, shopping, and the list goes on. For a significant amount of time, there has been a push to make the real estate closing process electronic as well. This is not as easy as it sounds, as there are many aspects of a real estate closing, from the receiving of the documents, the signing, the notarizing, to the recording. States have been drafting laws to address each of these aspects of the process and whether they can be done electronically. However, there are still questions out there about the legality of them. The Property Records Industry Association (PRIA) addressed issues regarding the legality of eNotarization in a recent white paper titled “Electronic Notarization: Traditional Assurances for Electronically Recorded Documents.” During PRIA’s Winter Symposium, several electronic notarization experts spoke on the topic as well.
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