Kansas-commissioned notaries, not copywriters
Every article on this blog is written or reviewed by a commissioned Kansas notary with real signings behind them. Here's who's who — and which parts of the job each of them knows best.
Marlene Voss
Kansas Commissioned Notary Public · Certified Real Estate Closing Agent · Hutchinson, KSMarlene started as an escrow assistant at a Reno County title company in the late 1990s and got her notary commission in 1998, back when the closing table still had an ashtray on it. Twenty-seven years and a few thousand signings later, she runs her own mobile closing practice and still keeps evening and Saturday slots open — she raised three kids around other people's paperwork and knows exactly how hard it is to find a weekday morning free.
Marlene writes about real estate closings, refinances, and the scheduling side of notary work — the parts that actually determine whether your signing goes smoothly.
Desmond Okafor
Kansas Commissioned Notary Public · NNA Certified Loan Signing Agent · Overland Park, KSDesmond spent eight years as a mortgage loan officer before he got tired of watching closings get pushed a day because of one missed initial or a name that didn't match the title. He became a notary specifically to be the person who catches that stuff before it costs someone a rate lock. He's been full-time in loan signings and business documents for twelve years now.
Desmond writes about loan signings, business and LLC paperwork, and the process mistakes that cause the most delays — usually with a checklist attached.
Priya Chandrasekaran
Kansas Commissioned Notary Public · Former Certified Paralegal · Topeka, KSBefore she became a notary, Priya spent eleven years as a paralegal at a Topeka family law and estate planning firm, which means she's read more powers of attorney, affidavits, and guardianship petitions than she can count — and seen exactly what happens when one of them gets notarized wrong. She's been a full-time notary for nine years.
Priya writes about the legal-document side of the job: the difference between an acknowledgment and a jurat, what a given document actually requires, and where notarizing ends and legal advice begins (a line she takes seriously — see the disclaimer on every post).
Walt Higgins
Kansas Commissioned Notary Public · Mobile & Rural Notary · Finney County, KSWalt drove an RFD mail route through western Kansas for thirty years before he retired and got bored about four months in. He got his notary commission mostly so he'd have a reason to keep driving the back roads, and fifteen years later he covers more rural mileage than anyone else on this team — kitchen-table signings, hospital rooms, farm sales, the works.
Walt writes about rural and long-distance signings, notarizing for elderly or homebound family members, and the kind of document questions that come up more on a farm than in an office.
Renata Kessler
Kansas Commissioned Notary Public · NNA-Approved Notary Instructor · Lawrence, KSRenata has been a notary for twenty years and has taught Kansas notary certification courses for most of that time, which means she's the one on this team who actually keeps up with the statute changes — including when Kansas updated its notarial-acts law and, later, when remote online notarization became an option here. If a rule changed last legislative session, she's read the redline.
Renata writes about the regulatory side: fees, apostilles, remote online notarization, and what Kansas law actually requires versus what people assume it requires.
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