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Notary Services in Bulgaria
When it comes to real estate transactions in Bulgaria, a notary is essential.
Notaries play a critical role in these transactions, ensuring that all legal requirements are met and that the transaction is conducted smoothly and lawfully.
They are responsible for verifying the authenticity of signatures on various documents such as contracts and Powers of Attorney, making them a crucial component in maintaining the integrity of legal processes.
Additional Notarial Services
In addition to real estate matters, Bulgarian notaries offer a range of services:
– Will Deposits: Notaries can securely deposit wills, ensuring they are preserved and legally recognized upon execution.
– Vehicle Transfers: They oversee the legal transfer of vehicle ownership, ensuring all necessary documentation is correctly completed and filed.
– Certifying Signatures: Notaries certify signatures on documents, providing an added layer of verification and trustworthiness.
The Role of Notaries Versus Solicitors
In Bulgaria, notaries and solicitors (known as Bulgarian advocates) have distinct roles.
Notaries are public officers appointed to act as impartial witnesses to the signing of documents and to ensure that the parties involved understand the contents of the documents they are signing.
Unlike solicitors, notaries cannot provide legal advice or prepare documents on behalf of their clients.
However, they serve as trusted authorities in formal business dealings, ensuring the legality and authenticity of documents.
Bridging the Gap: Our Services
While notaries in Bulgaria are limited to their specific functions, our team is here to bridge the gap between needing notarization and understanding the full scope of your legal needs.
We provide comprehensive assistance to help you navigate through the legal processes, ensuring that your documents meet all necessary requirements, including obtaining apostilles.
Apostilles for International Use
An apostille is a certification that authenticates the origin of a public document, such as a birth certificate, court order, or any other document issued by a government agency.
Our team can assist you with:
– Obtaining Apostilles:
We guide you through the process of obtaining an apostille, ensuring your documents are recognized internationally.
– Document Preparation:
Ensuring that your documents are correctly prepared and formatted for apostille certification.
– Streamlining the Process:
Helping you navigate the bureaucratic steps involved in securing an apostille, saving you time and effort.
Comprehensive Legal Support
Beyond notary and apostille services, we offer a range of legal support to meet your needs:
– Document Preparation:
Drafting and preparing legal documents to ensure they meet all legal standards.
– Legal Advice:
Providing expert legal advice tailored to your specific situation and requirements.
– Representation:
Representing you in legal matters to ensure your interests are fully protected.
Our dedicated team is committed to providing you with the highest level of service, ensuring that all your legal documents are handled with the utmost care and professionalism.
Whether you are dealing with real estate transactions, vehicle transfers, or international document certifications
We are here to assist you every step of the way. Contact us today to learn more about how we can help you with your legal document needs.
Scope of Notary Related Services
We draft and finalise all types of notary deeds — e.g. for the transfer of real estate through sale and purchase contracts, through gifts, by inheritance, etc.
We are also in a position to advise you , concerning the Legal documents apostiles, when and how to use the notarial form of contract to your advantage.
Because of our extensive experience and network of contacts among Bulgarian notaries, where more than one is available
We are able to liaise with them for you and ensure that you obtain the best service.
Verification of documents with an apostilles
Sometimes, if a document is required to be presented in Bulgaria but was signed or otherwise prepared outside Bulgaria, the document would need to be:
(a) certified; and/or
(b) apostilled
Apostillisation is designed to replace the older procedure of legalisation, and is governed by an international convention (we refer to this as “the Apostille Convention”).
An even simpler procedure may apply where the document was prepared in one of a small number of countries enjoying agreements for special assistance in civil and judicial matters with Bulgaria:
contact us to find out if your country of interest is one of these.
By far the most common situation involves documents which do require an apostille.
Apostilled documents are immediately recognised in all other Apostille Convention states simply by having a special seal (‘apostille’) attached, and can be used (subject to a certified translation) in place of notarised documents.
In property transactions, apostilles may be needed on Powers of Attorney and on several of the documents in the procedure for company registration (if a company is used).
We can help you obtain Legal documents apostiles.
You just need to visit, getting the draft of documents HM Government’s office for apostille processing.
This allows us to prepare an apostille for you and deliver the certified POA, etc, to Bulgaria within several days of your instruction.
In EUROPEAN countries, we maintain relations locally to allow us to apostille your document for use in Bulgaria as fast as possible.
Equally, we can procure legalisations, certified and sworn translations of documents and certifications of documents produced or executed in Bulgaria for use in other countries.