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Certified True Copies This in many cases saves you risking your original documents which may be expensive and quite time consuming to replace. When you need a certified true copy of an original document, a Notary Public is required in most jurisdictions (which is why it is often referred to as a notarized copy).

Get your document copies certified at the Post Office. If you need to supply certified copies of your original documents, we can certify that the copies presented are a true likeness of the original document(s).

To have a copy of a document certified, you must bring the original and copy to a notary public. Once in front of a notary, one must sign the copy document and then the copy must be stamped by the notary public.

The best way to obtain a certified copy is to use the services of a professional notary public. Notaries public are officers who are authorized to certify documents and administer oaths.

To be valid under New Jersey's statutes, a will must be in writing, signed by the deceased person, and signed by two other individuals who witnessed the deceased person sign the will. (And, it must be the original will – see our prior post here.)

A will is legal in New Jersey if it is handwritten or typed by a competent adult and witnessed by two other people. It is self-proving if it also has been notarized.

Just as an example, a Will must be signed in front of 2 witnesses and notarized. But if there is a situation where 1 or more of the witnesses signed the Will after the fact, thereby not actually witnessing the signing of the Will, then the document could be deemed as invalid.

Registration is entirely voluntary and electing not to register with the Office of the Secretary of State does not have any effect on the validity of the will.

Following a death family members will often ask, “What if I can't find the original Will”, meaning “can we probate a copy of a lost original Last Will and Testament”? The answer is yes unless there is a dispute about the contents of the Will or why the original Will cannot be found.