A notary acceptor is a notary public who serves as a third party witness to an administrative process. A good example of how this works is if you send a Notice to someone who has not performed as they should, or owes you money or whatever, and you list the notary's name and address as a public official to whom they can answer. It does not preclude your adversary from answering to you, but it gives them an opportunity of having an impartial third party to 'tell their side of the story to' if they are sincere in wanting to settle the matter. If you do not receive an answer within the required time after each notice you send out, contact the notary to verify that s/he has not gotten a response either. The notary will then prepare a Certificate of Non-Response and send it to you. If you cannot locate a notary in your area who is willing to be an acceptor for your process, we have 2 notaries on staff here who can assist in that regard. Since we are not witnessing your signature (a local notary can do that), it does not matter if you are located outside of Pennsylvania, which is where we are. There are 2 ways in which you can utilize a Notary Acceptor: 1) If you just need proof of the other party's non-response and you do the document mailings yourself, list the notary's name and address in the document for the party to send a reply to. Send or fax (570-343-7984) the document to us or, if the document is more than 5 pages, just the pages that have your name & address, the recipient's name & address and the date sent, so we can pick up that information and create a more detailed document for you. At the end of the reply period, contact us -- send $35 fee if you hadn't already done so -- and we will send you the Certificate of Non-Response. For a multi-step process, the Certificates would all be sent together when the process is concluded. OR 2) If you want a formal Certificate of Dishonor, you can send your completed documents to us and we will add our Notary's Proof of Service (Certificate of Mailing) with your document and send it to the other party via certified mail. Be sure to include the notary's name and address in the document for the party(ies) to respond to. After a 2 or 3 step process (typically, the initial document is followed by a Notice of Fault, and then a Notice of Default) is completed, the notary can then give you a Notice of Non-Response - Certificate of Dishonor because the notary has expedited the mailings and can verify when they went out, that they were received and that no reply came back. We only do this for a process of at least 2 steps since we feel that issuing a Dishonor based upon only one document sent isn't fair. In order to protect ourselves, we reserve the right to determine whether or not the 2-step process is proper and fair to all parties. It is $50 per Proof of Service which includes copies, envelopes, certified mail fees & postage. The Notice of Non-Response - Certificate of Dishonor is $50, so to serve your initial document and then a follow-up document, such as a Notice of Fault, concluding with our Certif. of Dishonor, would be $150. If you have the full process of initial doc., Fault & Default (3-steps) and we add our Certif. of Dishonor, the total price would be $200. If there is more than one party in your matter and they are at different addresses, please include $10 per each additional party for each mailing to cover the extra expenses. If there are multiple parties at the one address, add an extra $5 or $10 to cover copying & postage. Rather than get into 'nickel & dime' details here, we'll leave the additional funds to your discretion based upon how many pages your documents are, how many parties, etc. If you'd like to get started right away and are using process 1 above, add to the end of your documents:
When the time has passed for the other party's reply, send us an e-mail and make payment by any of the methods described in the following paragraph. For process 2 above, send us your documents with payment, preferably as a postal money order with the "Pay to" line left blank or, if you're not comfortable with that, put Francesca Montelione on it. To send funds via PayPal, or to use credit card, click here. Please be aware that if you're using process 2 above, we need original documents to serve, so if you are paying electronically, you can send your documents in an e-mail attachment but we need the original of any signature pages. Contact Claudia if you have any questions: info@webmavin.com Phone: 570-343-0432 |