One city, three counties
Carrollton sits 4.6 driving miles west of Addison. With 133,434 residents at the 2020 Census it is one of the larger cities we cover, and it is unusual in a way that directly affects paperwork: Carrollton is split across Dallas, Denton and Collin counties, so the clerk who records your document is determined by your address, not by the city name on your mail.
Which clerk gets your deed
This is the question that trips up Carrollton signers more than any other, and it has three possible answers:
- Dallas County Clerk: Records Building, 500 Elm St Ste 2100, Dallas 75202, with the far more convenient North Dallas branch at 10056 Marsh Lane, Dallas 75229.
- Denton County Clerk: 1450 E McKinney St, Denton 76209, with an annex at 400 N Valley Pkwy in Lewisville that saves a long drive north.
- Collin County Clerk: 2300 Bloomdale Rd, McKinney 75071, with sub-courthouses at 900 and 920 E Park Blvd in Plano.
A notarization is valid anywhere in Texas regardless of county, so the county question is about recording, not about the notarial act itself. But a warranty deed sent to the wrong clerk comes back, and the delay lands on the signer. We ask for the property address up front and tell you which office it belongs to.
The Carrollton economy, and the documents it generates
Carrollton's employer base is broad rather than dominated by a single name: Cencora, Halliburton, Thomson Reuters and Securus Technologies all have a presence here, and the city is the corporate home of FASTSIGNS International and Heelys. That mix produces steady business paperwork: corporate resolutions, vendor and lease agreements, affidavits, and signature pages for transactions whose schedule is set somewhere else entirely.
It is also a healthcare stop. Carrollton Regional Medical Center at 4343 N Josey Lane is the hospital people mean when they call about a bedside signing, and hospital appointments are their own discipline: a medical power of attorney or a durable power of attorney signed in a hospital room requires a signer who is alert, understands what is in front of them and is signing of their own free will. If that is not the case, we say so and stop. Nursing homes, rehabilitation facilities and memory-care residences around Carrollton bring the same work and the same care.
A genuinely bilingual city
Carrollton is home to one of the largest Korean communities in the South, in the district widely known as Koreatown Carrollton, alongside a large Spanish-speaking population. That shapes how we work here. Every page on this site exists in English and Spanish, we take calls and texts in both, and we are used to appointments where the signer prefers one language and the documents are printed in another. One rule never bends: the signer has to understand what they are signing, in their own language. If they do not, the right answer is to pause the appointment, not to push through it. We notarize documents you provide; we do not prepare, draft, select or advise on documents, and we do not translate them.
Where we actually meet you
Carrollton appointments land in every setting the city offers: houses across 75006, 75007 and 75010; offices along the I-35E and Josey Lane corridors; coffee shops around Historic Downtown Carrollton and Carrollton Square; the Trinity Mills area; and hospital and care-facility rooms. Evenings and weekends are usually available. Carrollton (75006, 75007 and 75010) is in Zone 2, so for individuals the visit fee is $25, charged once per visit, plus the $10 State fee per notarization: $35 for one notarization, $45 for two; an evening or weekend visit adds $20. The ZIP box in the calculator on pricing gives the exact zone for your address, and the written quote confirms it. The total is quoted in writing before anything is booked.
State notarial fees are set by Texas Government Code § 406.024 and § 406.111. Travel and convenience fees are separate and are not notarial fees.
Online sessions, and the estate-document exception
Gwen holds a separate Texas online notary public commission, so many Carrollton documents can be handled in a remote audio-video session without anyone driving anywhere. There is one firm limit: wills, codicils and testamentary trusts cannot be notarized remotely in Texas and must be signed in person. For anything in the estate binder, a traveling appointment is not the convenient option; it is the only one. If your document is headed overseas, note that only the Texas Secretary of State issues an apostille; see apostille for what happens after the notarization.
Tell us the document, the address and when you need it. Call or text us, or send the details through contact, and we will confirm the county, the fee and a time.