The protection mandate
As legal professionals in family law, notaries can be precious allies.
Protection of Persons / Your Notarial Services / The protection mandate
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
Briefs
The Chambre’s Publications / The Chambre and Your Protection / Briefs
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
Adoption
Adopting a child involves a long and rigorous process that must be done in the best interests of the child and respect for their rights.
Families and Couples / Your Notarial Services / Adoption
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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)
Matrimonial regimes and family patrimony
A notary will help you choose the matrimonial regime (partnership of acquests or separation as to property) that best suits your situation and needs. They can even adapt it to your needs, in compliance with the applicable rules.
Families and Couples / Your Notarial Services / Matrimonial regimes and family patrimony
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
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
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