The Firm

Crema Notary Firm, founded by Attorney Sandro Crema in 2001, is a center of professional excellence that serves and protects the public interest across multiple legal areas: real estate, agricultural, financial, corporate and non-profit law, inheritance, family law, and private international law. The Firm is unwavering in its commitment to quality, security, and innovation: every case is approached as a blank page, a musical score to be composed from scratch, in order to identify the best possible solution—not only from a legal standpoint, but also from a fiscal, social, and economic perspective—for a diverse clientele of private individuals, businesses, public institutions, and non-profit entities, both Italian and international.

The Firm’s approach is tailored and welcoming, much like that of a bespoke atelier: every client is personally followed by the Notary, both before and after the signing, who carefully crafts a “made-to-measure” solution based on the unique characteristics of the case and the client’s personal needs.

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The roles of the notary

"The more notary, the less judge"

With these words the famous jurist Carnelutti defined the essence of the notary's role (and therefore his most important activity before the law).
The meaning is that the better the notary does his job - of verifying and interpreting the wishes of parties (i.e. persons) in the drafting of a contract and the drawing up of the relevant clauses in a legal manner - the less likelihood of having recourse to the judge (and in other words the less risk of the notarial document being cause for lawsuits).

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The cost of a notarial deed

The total cost of a notarial deed includes not only the notary's fees, but also the taxes, duties, and other fees the notary pays to the state on behalf of the client. In most cases (and almost always, when it comes to real estate purchases), the notary's fee represents only a small portion of the total cost. The notary can, however, specify the impact of each item on the total requested.

Similar considerations can be made regarding vehicle transfers. For example, the notary's fee almost never accounts for more than fifty euros of the registration cost of a new car, and is usually close to half that amount.

It is impossible to provide even a rough estimate of the cost of a deed here: there are too many variables to consider. Notary fees, in particular, are set out in specific tables approved by the District Councils as part of a national tariff: they depend on the type of deed, its value, the difficulties presented by the case, and several other factors.

The Jurisdiction of the Notary

A notary is a public official authorized to draw up deeds both between living persons (i.e. sales, exchanges, divisions of property, loans etc) and last will and testaments, witness them publicly, keep and issue copies, certificates (i.e. summaries) and extracts (i.e. partial copies) (article 1 of the notarial law). 
A deed drawn up by a notary is a public document, because the notary is authorized to bear witness to it (hence he is a public official) and as such carries particular legal force: statements made in a notarial deed (e.g. that the document has been read to the parties, or that a person has made or signed a declaration in his presence) provides full evidence (in other words must be considered as true, even by a judge), unless falsification has been proved.  
The law calls for notarial deeds for those events and contracts for which it is necessary to guarantee the maximum degree of legality in terms of identity of the parties and conformity to their wishes, because such acts are considered significant: for their social and economic content or complexity (e.g. sales, divisions of property, loans and other real-estate contracts, deeds of constitution of commercial companies and modifications to social status, constitution of associations for the purpose of becoming juridical entities, etc); for the effects they may have upon the civil status of a person (e.g. recognition of a natural child); and for the public interest in the expression of a person's will and its accurate rendering in legal language (e.g. wills, donations).