NOTARIES IN BRAZIL Marco Castro
A Visit to the Association of Notaries Public (ANOREG) of the State of Alagoas
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ast Winter, which is Summer in Brazil, I visited the Notaries Society in the City of Maceió in the Northeast of Brazil.
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…for the entire population of more than 3.4 million in the State of Alagoas, there are only about 250 Notary Offices.
Through my Notary friend José Roberto Martins, I contacted Manoel Iran Malta, Vice President of the Association, and I visited the Society. I learned that for the entire population of more than 3.4 million in the State of Alagoas, there are only about 250 Notary Offices. Business is intense. Dozens of people arrive to those offices every day to record some important fact or document. In any Notary Office in the Capital of Maceió, there are at least 15 to 20 staff. The situation is even more intense in the Metropolitan Region of Sao Paulo where there are more
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Marco Castro (R) with Manoel Iran Malta, the Vice President of the Notaries Society of the State of Alagoas, Brazil The Society of Notaries Public of British Columbia
Volume 26 Number 2 Summer 2017
