by Karla FermanoWhat’s the Job of a Certified Handwriting Expert in Phoenix, Arizona?
In Phoenix, AZ, the phrase “certified handwriting expert” gets used a lot — and often incorrectly.
I see this confusion regularly with attorneys, business owners, and even clients preparing for litigation downtown near the Maricopa County Superior Court on Jefferson Street. So let’s clear this up the right way, without legal jargon or fluff. Short answer: a certified handwriting expert usually works in one of two very different professions. One role deals with legal truth and document authenticity. The other focuses on personality insight and behavioral tendencies. Same phrase. Completely different jobs.
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by Bart BaggettDo Signature Changes Matter in Phoenix Forgery Cases?
Do Signature Changes Matter in Phoenix Forgery Cases? Here’s How Experts Look at It
In Phoenix, Arizona, disputes over signatures tend to surface at important moments — estate matters, real estate transfers, business disagreements, or probate litigation. And almost every one of those cases starts with the same concern: “This signature doesn’t look like it used to.” That concern is understandable. It’s also exactly what forensic handwriting analysis is designed to address.
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by Bart BaggettDo you need to hire a handwriting expert?
If you are an attorney, you are probably already familiar with hiring an expert witness for your case. Choosing the right expert witness is important. Most have worked with expert witnesses at some point in their career, but most haven’t hired a Forensic Document Examiner.
If your case involves a forged check, a last will and testament, a pre-nuptial agreement, a contract, or a signature that doesn’t seem to be authentic, you should be looking for a Forensic Document Examiner.
You should know a couple of things before you make your first phone call to a Forensic Document Examiner. First, how many documents do you need analyzed? These are the documents that you and your client think may be forged or not authentic. The Forensic Document Examiner will refer to these as “questioned documents”. This is important to know since the Forensic Document Examiner will charge a fee per questioned document.
Read Moreby Bart BaggettHow To Spot a Forgery
How To Spot a Forgery
Perhaps this can be explained using a well-known example from television.
If you haven’t heard of or seen the Netflix documentary, ‘Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness’, it is a seven-part docu-series that follows people who own private zoos. These zoo owners have large animals like Lions, Tigers, Cougars, and more. The show documents the zoo owners, their interaction with other zoo owners, and their treatment of the animals.
One zoo owner is named Carole Baskin. The show often featured her and the mysterious disappearance of her multi-millionaire husband Jack Donald ‘Don’ Lewis.
After watching the show, fans had questioned whether Carole had any involvement in the sudden disappearance of her husband and whether she forged Don’s name on a Will and on a Power of Attorney.
Since the show aired and gained popularity, www.HandwritingExpertDallas.com has stated that the Will and the Power of Attorney were indeed forged.
How is a Handwriting Expert able to tell that something is forged? Handwriting is unique to each person, and no two individual’s handwriting will be identical. Because of this, every person’s handwriting is as unique as a fingerprint.
www.HandwritingExpertDallas.com compared the Will and the Power of Attorney to other known documents of Don Lewis. Both documents had signs of forgery which include tremors, pen lifts and hesitations, and slow speed.
The two Handwriting Experts who reviewed the documents after the show gained popularity, had each concluded Don Lewis’ signature appeared to have been “traced” from his 1991 marriage record.
If you are working with a document that you think maybe forged or traced, contact us today and ask for Megan L. https://handwritingexpertdallas.com/contact/.