Legal Question in Real Estate Law in North Carolina
This question concerns me.I've had my ex wife to forge my signature on a document concerning some real estate property.Since the document was forged with my signature and sealed by a notary is it legal and will I have the right to file and press legal criminal charges against the ex wife and the notary for conspiracy to commit fraud? This was done after the divorce date,so this means that we have no connections after that point.
1 Answer from Attorneys
Before criminal charges are filed, the signature has to be proven as a forgery. The police are unlikely to spend time investigating that. You would need to hire a handwriting expert and then have them determine that it is not your signature. Once this is done, then you would have the grounds to have the document declared void.
As for the notary, you would need clear evidence of a "conspiracy" which will not be easy. It is possible that your ex appeared before the notary with a man with a fake id. In that case, there is no claim against the notary unless you can show that the ID would not have been accepted by a reasonable notary.
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