Description
When needing an witness to validate signature of someone who marks with X or has hard time writing and signature seems to be illegible. Most commonly used for estate planning, but can be used for any contract or document.Can also be used when someone has expired ID or missing ID. a credible witness must be impartial—a totally disinterested thirty party. Another requirement is that he or she must be personally known by both the signer and the notary public. And then all three—the notary, the signer, and the credible witness—must be present at the time of the performance of the notarial act.  the notary administers an oath or affirmation to the credible witness, and the credible witness must swear under penalty of perjury that the signer has the identity claimed. It is a good idea to record this oath in a notary record book as a notarial act, but it is legally required only if the state requires notaries to maintain a notary record book of all notarial acts performed. The notary laws in most states do not require that the oath of a credible witness be in written form. If a credible witness affidavit is required, it must be prepared by an attorney.