One of your favorite business clients hurriedly walks into your office in total dismay. When she went to refinance her home, the title company informed her that they wouldn’t be able to help her – because she doesn’t own the home. There’s a quitclaim deed showing that the house had been transferred to another person… right around the time as her nasty divorce. How can you help her to get her house back?
A forensic document examiner, Mike Wakshull has assisted on a number of cases where clients have claimed that real estate documents were fraudulently executed. In this seminar, Mike will use actual case examples from his practice to explore five different ways that people have attempted to perpetrate fraud on others to take their real estate. Mike will also show you three techniques that he uses to catch fraudsters that try to acquire real estate by altering documents or applying someone’s signature to a document. The following topics are also addressed: trash marks, handwriting & signature comparison, overtyping, examples of alterations, disguised writing, using Adobe Bridge, comparing fonts & dot patterns on a page and using quantitative measures to assist with determining authenticity.
A court-qualified forensic document examiner, Michael N. Wakshull has been involved in the Forensic Document Examination arena since 2010 and belongs to a number of Document Examination Associations. A licensed attorney in California, Jason Castillo actively participated in this course.