WATERLOO — The Department of Local Government Finance has approved the DeKalb Central school district’s 2021 budget, district Chief Financial Officer Steve Snider reported at Tuesday night’s school board meeting.
Dec 28, 2020 By Gary Blankenship Senior Editor Top Stories
Remote notary service started in Florida just as people were beginning to hear about a new thing called the coronavirus. By the time the e-will process was allowed, the country was in the middle of the full-blown COVID-19 pandemic.
So, was the ability to do these functions remotely during a pandemic a boon? For notary services, absolutely. For e-wills, not so much.
Both are allowed in Florida following 2019 legislation that authorized remote notary services as of January 1, 2020, and electronic execution of wills as of July 1, 2020.
“I don’t know of any online notarization platform that is doing e-wills right now,” said Sarah Butters, Probate Division director for the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section. “I kno