Citizens wishing to conduct a combined search in the registers of wills and protection mandates will be able to do so starting Sept. 2nd from a single online window. This project, born of several months of collaboration between the Barreau du Québec and the Chambre des notaires du Québec, aims to simplify a process often carried out in an emotionally charged context, and whose processing times can add up.

“As a notary or lawyer, when a citizen or a member of the family of a deceased person comes to see us, we always had to do two separate searches and it was often the professional who had to do it,” explains the general director of the Chamber of Notaries, Jean-François D’Amour.

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