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If you do not have 2 pieces of ID, you will have to bring someone personally known by you to verify your identity. Please advise us when booking your appointment.

Yes. If everyone needing to sign cannot make the appointment, we can accommodate different signing times. Contact our office to discuss your specific situation.

We offer daily drop-in times for simple notarizations. For more complex notarizations or multiples of documents, an appointment would be needed. If our drop-in times do not work, we offer additional times by appointment. Will, Powers of Attorney, Executor services, and Real Estate are available by appointment only.

No. It is important that your Attorney would be able to act for you, so the further away they live, the harder that may be. It might be that they have to travel here to do certain things, like register a Power of Attorney at a banking institution, however, much can be accomplished at a distance through electronic communications and courier. What is most important is that your Attorney(s) are trusted people and willing to take on the role.

Probably yes, but it is not a guarantee. It is best to have a Power of Attorney for the province for where you reside. Powers of Attorney from different jurisdictions may have different formats or language that may not have a direct interpretation in British Columbia. In some cases, it might be a consideration to keep an existing Power of Attorney and make a second one for British Columbia. For example, if a person has recently moved to BC from Ireland, but they still have financial and legal ties in Ireland (i.e. they still own a bank account, pension and real estate) the existing Power of Attorney done in that country appointing a person in that country will still provide an important benefit and ease of use. Make sure you advise your Notary of existing Powers of Attorney.