We offer a highly acclaimed drafting and authentication service, delivering efficient, precise, and internationally recognised documentation solutions.
Internationally Recognised Documentation
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We offer a highly acclaimed drafting and authentication service, delivering efficient, precise, and internationally recognised documentation solutions.
We offer a highly acclaimed drafting and authentication service, delivering efficient, precise, and internationally recognised documentation solutions. Whether for personal, commercial, or cross-border transactions, we ensure that your documents meet both South African legal standards and the formal requirements of foreign jurisdictions.
Our service is designed to remove uncertainty and delays from what can often be a complex administrative process. We guide you step by step — from drafting to final authentication — ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely turnaround.
Our professional offering includes:
- Signing and certification of documents for international use
- We attend to the notarisation and certification of documents required outside the Republic of South Africa, including affidavits, powers of attorney, corporate resolutions, agreements, academic documents, and personal status documents. We ensure that documents are correctly executed and compliant with the destination country’s requirements.
- Apostille and authentication services
- Where documents are to be used in countries that are signatories to the Hague Convention, we arrange for the issuing of an apostille certificate. For non-Hague Convention countries, we facilitate the full authentication process, including obtaining the requisite authentication certificate from the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) and securing the necessary endorsement or legalisation from the relevant Embassy or Consulate.
- Drafting and execution of Notarial Contracts
We draft and register notarial deeds and contracts that require formal notarial execution, including long-term leases, servitudes, ante-nuptial contracts, cessions, and other specialised agreements. Our notarial services ensure that these documents are legally valid, properly executed, and, where required, registered with the Deeds Office.
Our approach combines technical precision with practical efficiency. We understand that many authentication matters are time-sensitive and commercially significant, and we prioritise both responsiveness and accuracy.
When documents must stand up to scrutiny across borders, professionalism and attention to detail are non-negotiable — and that is exactly what we deliver.
SchoemanLaw – Your Legal Partner
Antenuptial Contracts
Antenuptial contracts set what we believe to be the cornerstones of successful unions.
Think of your antenuptial contract (“ANC”), or colloquially known as a “Pre-nuptial contract”, as the foundation to building a home.
Having an ANC offers several benefits, for example:
- Preventing your intended marriage from automatically being in community of property
- Offering transparency in your relationship by recording the rights, duties and consequences (legal and proprietary) of your marriage
- Preventing unnecessary disputes with your spouse down the line
