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Your "Legal" choices are to use a Mexican notario who by treaty can notarize something for you but they aren't cheap and you may get grief from whoever in the US doesn't think it's legal and wastes mucho of your time arguing with you. The other legal way is the US Consulate in GDL and they aren't cheap either. A non-legal way is to find a US Notary who is dishonest and will, for a fee, do what you ask. No idea what those folks charge. The cheapest way would be to buy yourself a Notary stamp, sure you could find someone to do that in GDL and go that route. All depends on how comfortable you want to feel after the fact. For me, the Consulate is the only way to go but YMMV.

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We only use the consulate to notarize our American documents. My husband's pension is too important to fool around with. They come Lakeside once a month. Next date is September 11.

https://mx.usembassy.gov/embassy-consulates/guadalajara/lake-chapalaajijic-services/

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Thanks. Actually these are our US wills which do not require notarization, but only two witnesses. We have also voluntarily includ toed a Self-Proving Affidavit, which, per Florida law, does not need to be notarized--but a notarial seal or legal stamp of any kind (by treaty, any country) is an extra precaution to ensure the validity of the two witnesses signing the Affidavit. We could, alternatively, have three witnesses--or four or five, for that matter--but the notario stamp/seal will be more than sufficient. My spouse is a retired attorney and very familiar with the Hispanic notario culture of South Florida, and he stresses how much more legal clout the notario has over a US notary. Too bad many institutions in the US fail to understand this. But at least the US court system does.

 

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