A Paralegal, Who Is Also a Notary Public, Is Employed

A paralegal, who is also a notary public, is employed by a large law firm. The law firm represents a top-twenty bank that, among other lines of business, owns mortgages sold to buyers of residential property and processes the mortgage payments. An associate is assigned to process the judicial foreclosure on 100 mortgages owned by the bank, but notices that none of the affidavits provided by the bank (and required for foreclosure) have been notarized. The associate brings the affidavits to the paralegal and asks her to notarize them. How should the paralegal respond?

A) Refuse to notarize them unless an authorized bank representative re-signs them in her presence.
B) Notarize them as requested by the associate.
C) Refuse to notarize them unless the associate saw an authorized bank representative sign them.
D) Notarize them, but only if instructed to do so by the responsible partner in the firm.

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