STATUTORY DECLARATION Commissioning - Evenings at your Home

To schedule an evening commissioner of oath appointment, email our law firm at Chris@NeufeldLegal.com for availability.

Service available for North Calgary, Southwest Calgary (above 17th Ave SW), and Bearspaw.

In speaking with many busy Calgarians, we've learned how difficult it can be to get a statutory declaration commissioned, as your own work and personal schedule typically makes it extremely challenging to schedule, let alone find, a lawyer or other authorized commissioner of oaths to commission your statutory declaration, while many legal professionals have already committed their primary work hours to existing legal work, such that fitting in the unscheduled commissioning of a statutory declaration is difficult to justify (given that all too frequently, the paperwork that individuals believe merely need to be commissioned by a commissioner of oaths, actually requires the provision of independent legal advice, which can take significant additional time and represents added cost, as there are many documents that cannot be simply signed and commissioned by a lawyer / commissioner of oaths).

To address the difficulty in addressing the need for commissioner of oath services in Calgary, where our own daily schedule makes it difficult to fit in commissioning during the course of the regular workday, we have taken to providing pre-scheduled commissioner of oath services in the evenings in North Calgary (together with Bearspaw and SW Calgary north of 17th Ave SW), where we come to your home to complete the commissioning of the statutory declaration at a pre-scheduled time that works for both yourself and myself. We also require that all documents that are required to be commissioned are emailed to our law firm in advance (together with your location), such that we might confirm in advance if independent legal advice or other special actions are required for purposes of completing the legal paperwork, and to confirm the actual costs. Also, if you require the drafting of the statutory declaration, based upon the specifics required, we can provide you with a price quote for drafting a statutory declaration.

Among the more common statutory declarations that we commission (although there are many others, including some very unique statutory declarations that we have commissioned):

Statutory Declaration for Proof of Identity: Often required by Service Alberta (Vital Statistics, Registry Connect) if you are applying for documents (like birth certificates) by mail and are unable to appear in person at a registry office.
Statutory Declaration of Common-Law Union (IMM 5409): Required by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) to prove a common-law relationship.
Statutory Declaration of Lost or Stolen Documents: Used to formally declare the loss of important documents like a passport, title, or professional certificate when applying for a replacement. In a corporate setting, this might involve lost or destroyed share certificates, corporate seals, or bond certificates.
Statutory Declaration on Sale of Business or Assets: In corporate sales transactions, the vendor may be asked to confirm (i) that they have clear and marketable title to the assets being transferred and that the assets are free from any undisclosed liens, mortgages, or other encumbrances, and (ii) that all requested due diligence materials (financial statements, contracts, etc.) provided to the purchaser was complete, accurate, and true as of the closing date.
Statutory Declaration regarding Land Titles: Often used in real estate transactions, such as proving the discharge of a mortgage or an interest in land, the Alberta Land Titles office requires the confirmation of certain facts related to ownership, spousal interests, or the status of a corporation.
Statutory Declaration regarding Residency: A declaration by the seller of real property that they are a resident of Canada for the purposes of the Income Tax Act, given that the purchaser of real property from a non-resident is legally required to withhold a portion of the sale price and remit it to Revenue Canada, such that the statutory declaration exempts the purchaser from this withholding obligation.
Change of Name Applications: Used to affirm and declare a legal name change for updating identification documents.
Declarations for Professional Licensing/Accreditation: Required by professional bodies (e.g., medical, engineering, or accounting associations) to confirm qualifications or good standing.

If you require a statutory declaration to be commissioned, (1) with no independent legal advice or special actions or circumstances being required, (2) your anticipated cost would be as follows:

$125.00 (plus applicable disbursements and taxes)	If located in North Calgary (west of Deerfoot Avenue) and Bearspaw
$195.00 (plus applicable disbursements and taxes)	If located in North Calgary (east of Deerfoot Avenue) or Southwest Calgary (north of 17th Avenue SW)

(1) If there are no conflicts of interest or other legal impediments, our cost includes commissioning the same form of statutory declaration for your spouse or commissioning an additional one to four statutory declarations of the same form at the scheduled meeting; however, we require that you confer with us in advance, given that there can be legal impediments to providing statutory declarations to additional persons in certain circumstances.

(2) If independent legal advice or special actions or circumstances are involved, we will look to provide you with the intended cost of our legal services in advance, such that you make an appropriate determination prior to our travelling out to meet with you and complete the agreed upon paperwork (i.e., the completion of a Guarantees Acknowledgment Act Certificate in furtherance of a personal guarantee by statute requires that independent legal advice is provided, this is explicitly set out in the statute, such that this document cannot be simply commissioned but requires engagement of the lawyer for that specific purpose).

To schedule an appointment, please contact our law firm to attain our current availability for an evening mobile commissioner of oaths session, by emailing our law firm in strict confidence at Chris@NeufeldLegal.com with your contact information (including home address), preferred times and PDFs of the statutory declarations to be commissioned (redacting any sensitive or confidential information), such that we might coordinate the actual meeting time and provide you with the intended cost of our commissioner of oath services.