The Louisiana Civil Law Notary in Law and Practice: Decoding the Louisiana Exam

The Louisiana Notary Exam averages less than a 20% pass rate.

The Notary Exam has an official Study Guide you use during the exam. But the Study Guide has no index, no big picture, no study strategies, no exam-day tips, not enough cross-references . . . and few of the forms notaries use that they test your understanding of. It’s got the law and notary rules, but it’s missing essentials for any such textbook.

This book has all that—and much more that anyone contemplating the Notary Exam should read. It even includes crucial information about notary practice that every newbie notary ought to know. Basically it’s the rest of the official Study Guide they somehow omitted. Why would they leave out the index, of all things? Reminder: a 20% pass rate.

As a senior law teacher and member of two state bars, Professor Childress still needed to pass the Louisiana Notary Exam to start practicing as one. It’s a challenging exam for everyone, yet he found in the ‘Study Guide’ lots of trees but little forest—and even less real guidance. Determined that current test-takers can do better with more real help, he wrote this book and geared the page numbers—including a detailed index—to the 2020 edition (currently, the 2023 one) of the state’s official text, Fundamentals of Louisiana Notarial Law and Practice.

An affordable addition to the Self-Study Sherpa Series from Quid Pro Books. Also in the series is the author’s new companion volume of practice exams, sample questions, and explained answers.

As of January 2023, this book is available in a new, fully-updated edition keyed to the latest state study guide. The links below are for the new edition:

AVAILABLE IN 2023 PAPERBACK EDITION: at such sites as Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble online, BooksAMillion.com, Powell’s Books, Ingram catalog, YBP Library Services, and Midwest Library Service.

AVAILABLE IN 2023 HARDBACK EDITION: at such sites as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, BooksAMillion, Powell’s, Ingram catalog, YBP, and Midwest Library Service.

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Also available in all major eBook formats:

Amazon for Kindle.

Barnes & Noble for Nook.

Apple iTunes and iBooks, found direct on the iPad and iPhone (see it in Apple Books).

And in ePUB format at Smashwords and such sites as Kobobooks and Scribd.

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Title:

Steven Alan Childress

THIS 2023 edition:

Paperback: 978-1-61027-476-0 ($34.99)
Trade paperback: 978-1-61027-478-4 ($34.99)
Hardback: 978-1-61027-479-1 ($34.99)
ePUB: 978-1-61027-477-7 ($9.99)
Kindle ASIN: B0BTDL421Y ($9.99)

Published January 29, 2023. 146 pages.

REVISED 2022 edition:

ISBN 9781610274456 (paperback); $33.99
ISBN 9781610274487 (trade paperback): $33.99
ISBN 9781610274463 (hardcover): $43.99
ISBN 9781610274470 (ePUB); $9.99

Published March 17, 2023; 142 pages.

ORIGINAL 2020 edition:

ISBN 9781610274050 (paperback); $29.99
ISBN 9781610274074 (hardcover); $39.99
ISBN 9781610274067 (ePUB); $9.99
ASIN B084TRNKR2 (Kindle); $9.99

Published Feb. 14, 2020; 132 pages.
Also available in 2021 edition, shown above, keyed to the 2021 blue Fundamentals guide.