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Celebration of your marriage

You wish to get married or to unite civilly? Did you think of choosing a notary for officiating your marriage or your civil union?

Why choose a notary as the officiant? The notary is a professional who will assure you the respect of the necessary formalities for celebrating your marriage, in particular by proceeding to:

  • the drafting and posting of the notice of civil marriage;
  • the preparation and the signature of the declaration of marriage.

Your notary, while respecting the requirements of the law and the formalities required by the Registrar of civil status, understands very well the importance for you of a day on which you must be the main participants.

Your notary can move out for you, the celebration of your marriage can take place at the location of your choice and demonstrate your values by integrating into the celebration, if you wish, a choice of readings, testimonies or vows which will allow you to live a unique ceremony.

Your notary will ensure that you will always get the starring role and be the masters of this celebration.

Your notary is the only officiant authorized to celebrate marriages who can advise you legally on the consequences of your marriage, he is the only one who can answer your questions about:

Your notary will draft for you, if you deem it necessary, a marriage contract.This act must necessarily be notarized.

The notary acting as officiant is the professional who will accompany you in the preparation of the celebration and can advise you in the planning of the legal aspects of your union. To choose a notary as officiant, it is to choose an officiant with an added value.

You are de facto spouse and do not wish to get married, your notary can guide you in the drafting of a cohabitation contract and thus provide for certain aspects of an eventual break-up (partition of the property jointly acquired during de facto union, for example). It is necessary to remember that the Civil Code of Quebec grants at the present no protection to de facto spouses with respect to the family patrimony and the matrimonial regime. De facto spouses have thus the responsibility to take in charge their mutual protection by drafting a cohabitation contract or a Will.

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