california: Can a notary in California write a letter for a client then notarize the signatures on that letter for the client? A client needs a letter stating that she rents a room in a house in order to qualify her child to go to a certain school district. She wants me to write the letter for her and for me to notarize the signatures of her and the property owner. Yay or nay???? Would prefer advice from professional.|||When you notarize something you are not specifying that the item that was signed is true, you are saying that the signature of the person was put there by the person you saw sign it. I do not know why she does not want to write her own letter but she can certainly hire someone to compose a letter for her and that person could be you. Many school districts have form letters for this kind of thing. If every person going to school had to write their own letter, and get the landlord to sign it the school district would go batty trying to read all the different letters.|||The answer is NO!!! Notaries cannot prepare documents. That is considered the practice of law. They can also not determine the type of notarization required on a document. To find a qualified list of public notaries visit http://www.needanotary.net/search.php Report Abuse |||qecis: Notaries CANNOT prepare legal documents, but notaries can certainly compose a simple letter or type out an affidavit at a client's direction. Notaries cannot provide legal advice, advise a client on whether something is legal, or make suggestions to a client with regard to legal verbiage. Report Abuse