I've traveled probably 50-60 times across with my kids. I've always had a notorized letter. I guess it wasn't worth the risk for me in case I got the border guard having a bad. I've only been asked to show the letter about 8 times. One time it was looked over pretty good. I just used the template from the website and we put all dates I know we may be going down, to limit the number of letters we write. Usually I do a summer one and a winter one for when we go to the cabin, but we do one-offs for air travel where I include all of the flight information.
I have friends who also never had an issue without an notorized letter. I think I'm more paranoid of getting in trouble because I have property down there.
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