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KNOWN DOCS.

By Known Docs. We mean known documents, referred to as  standards or exemplars. Standards are legally admissible authentic samples of handwriting or signatures used for comparison with the questioned writing or signature. The genuineness  of the standards must be found to be clear and undisputed or the court may reject them. So when sending in standards please make sure that they will be able to be verified as genuine.

There are two kinds of standards, informal which means documents previously executed and formal which is request writing.  Standards should ideally have been written reasonably close  to the date of the questioned document and where possible  of a similar nature, so for example, we can compare contracts with contracts. Where the availability of suitable writing for comparison is limited please send us anything you are able to obtain as we are often able to create  a report with limited recourses. It is always advisable to discuss the nature of your documents with us before sending them so we can advise you further.  

Signatures 

Try to get known confirmed signatures made as close to the date of the questioned signature as possible. For an adult in good health this should be within the last last 5 years but more recent if possible. If there has been a deterioration  in health or quality of life of the person who is alleged to have written the signature and there is a possibility that their  illness or or old age  may have had an effect on their writing which maybe the case in a questioned will, we will need to examine confirmed signatures of that person after they were diagnosed with their illness or their writing began to deteriorate due to old age or infirmity. There is a list of illness or conditions which may effect  handwriting and signatures at the bottom of this page.

 

Suggested Sources of Signatures and Handwriting Standards 

  1. Account Books

  2. Affidavits

  3. Assignments

  4. Autographs

  5. Bank Deposit Slips

  6. Bank Safe Deposit Entry Slips

  7. Bank Savings Withdrawal Slips

  8. Bank Signature Cards

  9. Bank Statements, Receipts for

  10. Bills of Sale

  11. Bonds

  12. Books, Signatures of Owners

  13. Business License Applications

  14. Charity Pledges

  15. Check Book Stubs

  16. Checks, including Endorsements

  17. Church Pledges

  18. Convention Registrations

  19. Contracts

  20. Cooking Recipes

  21. Corporation and company Papers

  22. College or university papers

  23. Criminal Records

  24. Credit Applications

  25. Credit Cards & Charge Slips

  26. Dentists records

  27. Deeds

  28. Deeds of Trust

  29. Depositions

  30. Diaries

  31. Divorce Papers

  32. Drafts

  33. Car or van hire Applications

  34. Driver’s Licenses & Applications

  35. Druggists’ Poison Registers

  36. Employment Application

  37. Envelops, addresses

  38. Fishing Licenses

  39. Funeral Attendance Registers

  40. Gas Service Application

  41. Gate Records at secure facilities

  42. Greeting Cards

  43. Hospital Papers

  44. Hotel & B&B Guest Registers

  45. Identification Papers

  46. Inventories

  47. Leases

  48. Letters, Personal &  Business

  49. Library Card Applications

  50. Electricity Company Applications

  51. Life Insurance Papers

  52. Loan Papers

  53. Mail Orders

  54. Manuscripts

  55. Marriage License Papers

  56. Membership Cards: Social, Occupation

  57. Memoranda of all kinds

  58. Motor Insurance documents

  59. Military Papers

  60. Mortgage Papers

  61. National Health service documents

  62. Newspaper & Magazine Subscriptions

  63. Occupational Writing

  64. Package Receipts

  65. Parent’s Signatures on Report Cards

  66. Partnership Papers

  67. Passports

  68. Pawn Tickets

  69. Payroll Receipts

  70. Pension Applications

  71. Permit Applications

  72. Petitions, Referendum, etc.

  73. Photograph Albums

  74. Pleadings, Civil and Criminal

  75. Postal Cards

  76. Probate Court Papers

  77. Promissory Notes

  78. Prescriptions from a doctor

  79. Property Damage Reports

  80. Receipts for Rent

  81. Registered Mail Return Receipts

  82. Releases

  83. Rental Contracts for Equipment

  84. Reports

  85. Sales Slips

  86. School & College Papers

  87. Social Security Cards & Papers

  88. Sport & Game Score Cards

  89. Stock Certificates, Endorsements

  90. Surety Bonds Application

  91. Tax Returns and Estimates

  92. Telephone Service Applications

  93. Time Sheets

  94. Traffic Tickets and fines

  95. Voting Registration Records

  96. Vehicle / Motor registration documents

  97. Veterinary records

  98. Water & Sewage Company Service Applications

  99. Wills

 

The following  illnesses  or conditions may have an effect on the persons handwriting and signature: 

  1. Agaphia, (head injuries, strokes, brain infections and tumours) asphasia and dyslexia
  2. Alzeimers Disease / Senile Dementia

  3. Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig Disease)

  4. Arthritis

  5. Cerebral Palsy 

  6. Diabetes Mellitus (low blood/sugar levels version)

  7. Multiple sclerosis (MS)

  8. Parkinsons disease

  9. Aquired agraphia

  10. Linguistic agraphia

  11. Nonligustic agraphia

  12. Progressive supranclear palsy

  13. Huntingtons disease

  14. Essential tremour

  15. Infirmity 

  16. Injury

 

 

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