Annual Reports
The Chambre’s Publications / The Chambre and Your Protection / Annual Reports
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
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
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
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
Notary or attorney?
Both the notary and the lawyer are legal advisers empowered to provide advice in all areas of law.
Business / Your Notarial Services / Notary or attorney?
Briefs
The Chambre’s Publications / The Chambre and Your Protection / Briefs
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
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
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Separation
In the event of divorce or separation, a notary can accompany you through several stages, including the establishment of alimony and child custody and the preparation of a draft agreement. As a mediator, a notary will help you reach fair agreements and avoid conflicts. Under certain conditions, a notary may also represent spouses before the court.
Families and Couples / Your Notarial Services / Separation
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
Tutorship and assistance measure
The notary can assist you with implementing the tutorships of a person of full age, tutorships of a minor and assistance measure. The notray will help you understand the duties and obligations involved.
Protection of Persons / Your Notarial Services / Tutorship and assistance measure
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)
Protection of personal information and access to information
The public may have access to documents and information held by the Chambre des notaires for the purpose of supervising the practice of the profession.
The Chambre and Your Protection / Protection of personal information and access to information
Families and Couples
Your Notarial Services / Families and Couples
Entracte Magazine
The Chambre’s Publications / The Chambre and Your Protection / Entracte Magazine
The protection mandate
As legal professionals in family law, notaries can be precious allies.
Protection of Persons / Your Notarial Services / The protection mandate
The procuration
Thanks to their legal expertise, notaries can advise you on the content of a power of attorney. They can also draft it for you according to your objective.
Protection of Persons / Your Notarial Services / The procuration
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)
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
Taskforce Reports
The Chambre’s Publications / The Chambre and Your Protection / Taskforce Reports
Applications for financial assistance (NSF)
The Chambre des notaires du Québec, through its Notarial Studies Fund (NSF), provides financial support to communities, organizations and society stakeholders for initiatives aligned with its mission: Protection of the Public.
Grants / The Chambre and Your Protection / Applications for financial assistance (NSF)
Real Estate
Your Notarial Services / Real Estate
Your Notarial Services
Your Notarial Services