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April 28, 2020
Dear Valued Clients and Friends,
Yesterday, Governor Baker signed a temporary piece of legislation allowing documents to be notarized remotely via video conference. This law will be in effect until three days after the Governor lifts the COVID-19 State of Emergency Order. After that date, all notarizations will revert to the pre-COVID-19 standards requiring in-person notarization.
This will be welcome news for you if this new law enables you to complete pending matters that may have been put on hold.
We have taken steps to make the process easy for you. If you are interested, your attorney will send you instructions, set up the video conference, and guide you through the entire process. A requirement of this law is that all parties involved in the signing – you, your attorney or paralegal, and witnesses - must be physically located in Massachusetts at the time of the video conference/signing. Also, the actual signing must be done during the video conference, and proper government issued identification must be presented to the notary.
Please call Alex it you have questions. If you have matters in progress that you believe could be completed remotely now, please feel free to contact us directly. Call Alex at 508-660-0331 today.
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