A ruling from Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal clarifies the statutory duties of notaries, as the panel held an official liable for a nearly quarter-million-dollar real estate deal involving a fraudulent document.

The ruling came in a case where the lower court had found that notary Nea Richardson’s notarization of a forged deed was of no consequence, because the document was later found to be fraudulent, and therefore voided.

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