Condominium (divided co-ownership)
Divided co-ownership is a specific form of ownership. To avoid unpleasant surprises during the purchase or sale process, a notary can guide you through each step.
Real Estate / Your Notarial Services / Condominium (divided co-ownership)
Purchase and sale (undivided co-ownership)
Undivided co-ownership is subject to specific rules. As experts in real estate law, notaries can advise you in the purchase or sale of property held in undivided co-ownership.
Real Estate / Your Notarial Services / Purchase and sale (undivided co-ownership)
Individuals who graduated from a Québec university or the University of Ottawa
This section allows you to learn more about the path to the notarial profession.
Pathway to the profession / Becoming a Notary / Individuals who graduated from a Québec university or the University of Ottawa
Briefs
The Chambre’s Publications / The Chambre and Your Protection / Briefs
The Medal of Honor
The Medal of Honor is the highest distinction awarded by the Order.
Tributes and recognitions / The Chambre and Your Protection / The Medal of Honor
The notary’s role
Notaries are in the best position to inform, guide and protect you.
Frequently asked questions on the notary / Your Notary / The notary’s role
Taskforce Reports
The Chambre’s Publications / The Chambre and Your Protection / Taskforce Reports
The succession
Notaries’ legal expertise enables them to advise you on all succession-related decisions, so that nothing is left to chance. The liquidator may also call upon a notary for guidance in the steps to take.
Wills and Successions / Your Notarial Services / The succession
The will
Notaries are specialists in succession law and have all the required expertise to draft acts. They ensure that your will complies with the laws in effect and that it legally reflects your last wishes.
Wills and Successions / Your Notarial Services / The will
Board of Directors and Departments
The Board of Directors exercises all the powers and prerogatives of the Order.
Governance and Organization / The Chambre and Your Protection / Board of Directors and Departments
The Notarial Merit Award
The Notarial Merit Award highlights the contribution or specific achievement, over the past three years, of a notary in a particular field whose impact has had a bearing on the entire profession.
Tributes and recognitions / The Chambre and Your Protection / The Notarial Merit Award
Lease, purchase, financing
The notary can assist you with the often confidential approach steps. He will also be able to prepare the tender offer, analyze the means of holding and what will be bought or sold (assets or shares), as well as financing possibilities.
Business / Your Notarial Services / Lease, purchase, financing
The notary’s professional fees
The fees are regulated by the Code of ethics of notaries in that they must be based on the time and effort spent on the file, its complexity and the notary’s expertise.
Frequently asked questions on the notary / Your Notary / The notary’s professional fees
Invoicing
During real estate transactions, a notary performs work for the seller, including ensuring the seller’s mortgage loan is paid, so the seller must assume the fees accordingly.
Real Estate / Your Notarial Services / Invoicing
Starting a business
The notary can establish the legal structure of the company, frame the agreement between the partners in order to determine the responsibilities of each, make the necessary arrangements concerning intellectual property, ...
Business / Your Notarial Services / Starting a business
Insurance Fund claim
Your Notary / Insurance Fund claim
Medical and end-of-life care
There are different ways to make one’s wishes known when it comes to refusing or accepting medical care.
Protection of Persons / Your Notarial Services / Medical and end-of-life care
Fee mediation
When there is a dispute between a client and a notary about an account for fees (bill), whether it has been paid or not, the client can use the conciliation process for accounts for fees offered by the Chambre des notaires du Québec.
Your Recourses / Protection of the Public / The Chambre and Your Protection / Fee mediation
Marriage, civil union and common law union
As legal professionals in family law, notaries can be precious allies. They can analyze your situation and counsel you regarding your choice of matrimonial regime. A notary can also officiate your marriage and draw up your marriage or community of life contract. If you decide on a de facto (common law) union, the notary will also explain the protective measures that can be taken.
Families and Couples / Your Notarial Services / Marriage, civil union and common law union
Office of the President
The President is the Order’s leading authority and head of governance.
Governance and Organization / The Chambre and Your Protection / Office of the President
Governance and Organization
The Chambre and Your Protection / Governance and Organization
Quality and Authenticity Certificates
Certify the original signature of a notary on a document intended for foreign countries with an authenticity or quality certificate issued by the Secretary of the Order.
The Chambre’s Services / The Chambre and Your Protection / Quality and Authenticity Certificates
Graduate Scholarship Program
Are you looking to pursue master’s or doctoral studies in a field associated with the notarial profession, or are you a notary interested in an academic career?
Grants / The Chambre and Your Protection / Graduate Scholarship Program
Purchase offer and preliminary contract
As legal experts in real estate law, notaries can draw up all necessary preliminary contracts—purchase offer, offer to sell, counter-offer, promise to purchase and promise to sell—up to the signing of the act of sale.
Real Estate / Your Notarial Services / Purchase offer and preliminary contract
Recourse for breaches of professional ethics or disciplinary infractions
Notaries are in breach of their professional ethics when they fail to fulfill their obligations through their conduct, their lack of integrity or diligence or any other infraction of the Professional Code, the Notaries Act, the Code of ethics of notaries or the other regulations to which they are subject.
Your Recourses / Protection of the Public / The Chambre and Your Protection / Recourse for breaches of professional ethics or disciplinary infractions
Preventive law specialists
As true local and family legal practitioners, notaries are present at every important milestone of a person’s or corporation’s life.
Role of the Notary / Your Notary / Preventive law specialists
Becoming a Notary
Becoming a Notary
Committees
Notaries participate in the Chambre des notaires’ many committees in order to contribute to their Order’s mandate and be involved in collective matters.
Governance and Organization / The Chambre and Your Protection / Committees
The Chambre and Your Protection
The Chambre and Your Protection
Financing program for the profession’s representative bodies
The Chambre des notaires has created a pilot project to provide these organizations with an opportunity to innovate in activities to advance the law and the notarial profession.
Grants / The Chambre and Your Protection / Financing program for the profession’s representative bodies
Individuals who graduated from a university outside Québec
This section allows you to learn more about the steps involved in applying for equivalence and the pathway to access the notarial profession.
Pathway to the profession / Becoming a Notary / Individuals who graduated from a university outside Québec
Entracte Magazine
The Chambre’s Publications / The Chambre and Your Protection / Entracte Magazine