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hi this is Laura with coach Morecambe and today let's talk about signatures you know I verify the right person signed the document but can I even read the signature I'm looking at typically not and that's okay because their signature does not have to be legible to be their legal signature and I'm verifying their name from the printed name on their ID card so that's not a problem however there can be issues with signatures so let's take the easiest one which is it's not illegible really it's incomplete or just a mark of some kind in this case this might happen with an older signer or a signer who's had an accident with their signing hand or perhaps their signer who has a disease state that is preventing them from their finger dexterity to manipulate a pen well so when that happens how do you handle that well it depends on your state because not all states handle it the same so there are some states Kansas for instance who relies on the intention behind the signature so that means whatever mark your signer makes is going to be acceptable and you need no further further proof or witnessing of that signature as long as the signer can communicate it's their intention to sign that document now other states Florida California they're going to require witnesses right so witnesses don't have to know this liner but they have to be there during the signing so that they can sign their own name as witnesses and print the name of the signer next to whatever that mark is so receiving agencies know what that name really is but sometimes even that is a problem you know if they can't manipulate a pen they could perhaps give you fingerprints and a fingerprint printer - paper that could suffice and of course the witness would write the signers name either way it still allows us to notarize the signature of the signer and the witnessing is an extension right of this we are still identifying and notarizing the principal signers name now sometimes they can't even do that and when that's the case there could be some states and there are about a half a dozen different states that allow for something called signature by proxy and this is where either the notary or a designee of the signer would sign the signers name on their behalf and if it is a designee other than the notary they need to be doing that in the presence of the principal signer and the notary and now we can notarize the signature of the principal signer and again this person is an extension of the signer it is still the signers signature that we are notarizing now there are other times that you'll be asked to notarize a signature for a principal but it's by a representing signer and sometimes I call them the appearing signer a person comes to you with...