Contract Requirements (signature + Notarized)

[Pierce]

When does a contract have to just be signed verses signed and notarized?I have a real estate contract from a builder and want to know if it is a legal contract or if we need to have it notarized and so forth.

[Chuck]

Not many files really *require* notarization, but an affidavit for example where somebody is proclaiming particular information under oath could be notarized. Usually, itis only a question of whether an event for the contract wishes it notarized. If you need to know if anythingis legally-binding, you'd tackle that having a local lawyer who are able to evaluate the doc. When the record guaranteed the contractor could build you a home in substitution for $$$ from you and you closed it, odds are you may consider it a binding contract.Iam accepting this is not merely idle curiousity?

[Kaysan]

Until quite recently I had been a notary and my signature and seal suggest nothing except that the individual or persons signing it have supplied proof that they're the folks they've proposed to be.It doesn't have something related to the legitimacy or the enforceability of the doc itself.

[dannie7]

I'm-not in UT, but I've NEVER heard about any scenario in which a contract needs to be notarized (in any state).As for whenever a contract needs to stay writing (which is what I suppose you mean by "closed"), see California Civil Code Section 1624 as of this url: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=civ&group=01001-02000&file=1619-1633.This is California's version of the "statute of frauds," and is, in my opinion, fairly representative of each state's version of that common-law principle (though, obviously, numerous claims may require a written contract in most cases that CA does and may require on in certain cases where CA does not)."I have a real estate contract from the contractor and wish to know if it's a legitimate contract or if we must have it notarized etc."The word "real estate contract" might mean lots of various things (I am also unsure what you mean when you state that you "have" this type of contract). It may be an arrangement for the move of a pursuit in real house, which comes within the range of the statute of frauds in most condition. Or it may be another thing that does not drop within the range of the SOF.