Louisiana Notary Exam Sidepiece 2026: Tips, Index, Forms - Essentials Missing in the Official Book

NEW 2026 EDITION of the best-selling notary prep guide to the challenging Louisiana exam. Beware of imitators! Most Louisiana notary prep books are "written" by entities or fictitious names that are not Louisiana notaries and give wrong answers and info for the state, despite their claims. Always check to see whether the author is a Louisiana notary, at the Secretary of State website database of commissioned notaries. Beware if not; they will set you up for failure (as reviewed at this author's YouTube channel, cataloging their wrong answers). THIS guide, existing since 2020, was painstakingly authored by a Tulane law professor, not generated instantly from a pool of data.

The Louisiana Notary Exam averages 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. It's notoriously hard to follow. It doesn't explain most-tested subjects, past exams, or recent changes. It's got the law and notary rules, but it's missing essentials for any such textbook. 

The Sidepiece has all that and much more that anyone contemplating the exam should read. It even includes crucial information about notary practice for the newbie notary, and is useful to experienced notaries for its expanded cross-references, complete index, and summary lists. 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.

Previous editions of this resource earned hundreds of 5-star ratings and comments that it's "essential" and "invaluable" to passing the exam, whether or not you take a prep class too. Read the reviews to get the scope, coverage, and necessity of adding this book into your study program. "The author's tips on what to expect on test day were worth the cost of the book alone. Get. This. Book." Please see all the reviews of editions yearly since 2020.

As a senior law teacher and member of two state bars, Prof. Childress still needed to pass the Louisiana Notary Exam to practice 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 an index, cross-references, lists, and illustrated explanation of successions, community property, and authentic acts to the latest edition of the state's official text, Fundamentals of Louisiana Notarial Law and Practice.

An affordable addition to the Sherpa Series from Quid Pro Books. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Steven Alan Childress is a senior professor of law at Tulane University and co-teacher of the leading notary prep class for the challenging Louisiana exam.