"Progress is not always an improvement, " said Marc Aronson, president of the Pennsylvania Association of Notaries.
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In 2011 France gave common-or-garden lawyers the right to create binding documents similar to those endorsed by notaries.
This may explain why Ms Lagarde's new law does not touch other regulated areas, such as pharmacies, taxis and notaries.
To help revive growth Mr Monti wants to liberalise closed professions such as pharmacists and notaries, and to simplify bureaucracy.
Since 2007 South Korea, South Africa and nine other nations have cut the role notaries play in property or business registration.
He is accused of illegally transferring children abroad with the help of two notaries who are suspected of falsifying "disclaimer" documents signed by single mothers.
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On Monday, after meeting with lawyers, mediators, notaries, and psychologists all weekend, the pair walks away amicably, with divorce papers signed, for one flat fee.
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Two years in the making, the new law also requires notaries, real estate brokers, and other dealers to report the forms of payment for transactions above the respective limits.
In Washington State, this agency is called the Department of Licensing, because the agency handles a lot of other permissions having nothing to do with motoring, like notaries public, morticians and, believe it or not, kick boxers.
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In the campaign for a mid-term election on July 5th involving all 500 seats in the lower house of Congress, PRI candidates across the country have solemnly trooped into public notaries' offices to turn their campaign promises into formal pledges.
It is certainly a thriving institution: in the six months to last October, the number of temporary marriages rose by 122%, partly, suggested Iran's notaries' office, because of the rising cost of full-blown weddings, partly because the country's divorce rate had increased by 32%.
And its liberalisation initiatives ran into a revolt by senators from Mr Berlusconi's party: lawyers and notaries who threatened that, if the clause abolishing their ordini was not withdrawn, they would sink the government's plan and tip Italy, the euro, Europe and perhaps the world economy into crisis.
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