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Online Notary, also known as remote online notarization (RON), is a virtual service that allows you to notarize legal documents in Florida and from anywhere else in the United States. By using LawDepot’s Online Notary, you connect with a notary public using your device’s camera and microphone.

Online Notary is a secure, easy, and accessible way to notarize legal documents conveniently from work or home.

Online notarization is also known as:

• Digital notarization
• Virtual notarization

Yes, using Online Notary to notarize your documents is legal in Florida. As of January 1st, 2020, the Florida government passed the Electronic Legal Documents law. This act allows Florida Notaries to conduct online notarizations once completing the required training and applications set in place by the government.

Also, the Full Faith and Credit Clause allows notarization performed from one state to be legal in another. Therefore, citizens can utilize online notaries from wherever they may live.

Online notarization is also supported by the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act that recognizes e-signatures as a legally valid form of signing documents.

With LawDepot’s Online Notary, our team of notaries provide the following services: 

• Jurat: When parties make an oath or an affirmation before the notary about the truthfulness of the document’s contents.
• Acknowledgement: When the parties express their willingness to sign a document to the notary.

With LawDepot’s Online Notary service, it’s just $25 for the first seal and $10 for each additional seal. Notarization can be completed from your place of work or home in just a matter of minutes. 

According to Chapter 117 of Florida Statutes, an online notary public can charge a maximum of $25, for performing an online notarial act. However, there can be extra charges for additional seals and signatures. 

LawDepot’s Online Notary service can notarize certain documents for the state of Florida. These include:

To find more documents eligible for Online Notary with LawDepot, take a look at our main page here.

Please note that LawDepot can notarize Powers of Attorney (POA). However, we cannot notarize a POA when it grants banking and investment powers in the state of Florida.

It’s important to always check your local laws to ensure online notarization is accepted.

Copies of vital documents cannot be notarized. These documents include very personal information about a person’s life events. Notary publics cannot verify if the copy is true to the original distributed by government agencies that keep the documents on record. 

LawDepot’s Online Notary cannot notarize copy certification, which is also known as certified copies. The following documents also can’t be notarized:

• Last Wills and Testaments
• Pour-Over Wills
• Powers of Attorney granting banking and investment powers
• Documents for use outside of the U.S.
• True copies of birth, marriage, and death certificates
• Court-issued documents
• Certificates of Naturalization
• Certificates of Citizenship
• Declarations of Intention to become a citizen

The things you need to notarize a document online with LawDepot are as follows:

• Valid photo ID for every signer (e.g., driver’s license, passport, etc.) 
• The document(s) requiring notarization
• A desktop or mobile device with a camera and microphone
• A LawDepot account
• Paypal or credit card