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- Forgery involves a false document, signature, or other imitation of an object of value used with the intent to deceive another. Those who commit forgery are often charged with the crime of fraud. Documents that can be the object of forgery include contracts, identification cards, and legal certificates.
- Forgery Laws and Penalties. The penalty for forgery, counterfeiting or, altering documents and instruments often varies according to the type of document altered, with important government documents at the top of the penalty list.
- What legal action can I do for signature forgery and tax return alteration? Asked on Aug 11th, 2012 on Criminal Law - Michigan More details to this question: I was the victim of a family forging my signature on a co-sign for student loans. Forging my signature on a co-sign for a new Jaguar and altering my tax information to show that I made.
Credit Union Ex-AIF Forgery
12/15/2019
Customer of credit union removed his attorney-in-fact from having this designation on his account. Three years later he went to the credit union and verbally asked to make sure that the AIF was 'off' his accounts in every way. Two years later the ex-AIF presented a customer service request document adding herself as beneficiary. If this is a forgery as claimed, it appears to bear a good one of customer's signature. Is credit union liable for now having paid her as beneficiary?
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To fabricate, construct, or prepare one thing in imitation of another thing, with the intention of substituting the false for the genuine, or otherwise deceiving and defrauding by the use of the spurious article. To counterfeit or make falsely. Especially, to make a spurious written instrument with the intention of fraudulently substituting it for another, or of passing it off as genuine; or to fraudulently alter a genuine instrument to another’s prejudice; or to sign another person’s name to a document, with a deceitful and fraudulent intent. To forge (a metaphorical expression, borrowed from the occupation of the smith) means, properly speaking, no more than to make or form, but in our law it is always taken in an evil sense. 2 East, P. C. p. 852, c. 19,
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- FORGERY The fraudulent act of creating a copy of a document, signature, a bank note or…