[blindlaw] Signatures?

[Susan Kelly]

Ross is definitely right about the "recognizable" part.  I have only
recently lost my sight, and still sign as I remember my signature to be.
I'm pretty sure it bears not much resemblance to when I could actually
see what I was doing, but the court still accepts it. 

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On Behalf Of Ross Doerr
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 2:15 PM
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Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Signatures?

Hello Ger:
You can hear them referred to as raised line kits or signature guides.
For a description, a signature guide is the size and shape of a business
card and made of either metal or plastic. I carry a metal one in my
wallet and have made sure that the secretary kept a plastic one in her
desk for blind clients.
The guide has a rectangular window, lengthwise, cut into it, and when
one needs to sign, the guide is placed with the window over the
signature line, with one of the edges on the line itself.You simply sign
your name inside the window.
Of course a sighted person needs to place it for you, thats a downside,
but it is, after all, a sighted world we live in.
As far as my signature goes and whether it is accepted or not -- I've
practiced law since 1988 and never had it challenged. If you get right
down to it, who on earth could forge my terrible signature?
Don't get too worked up over being able to sign things.  It is what it
is, and they'll accept your signature.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerard Sadlier" <gerard.sadlier at gmail.com>
To: <ckrugman at sbcglobal.net>; "Blind Law Mailing List"
<blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Signatures?


> Hi all,
>
> Thanks for your suggestions.
>
> What is a raised line kit?
>
> How long did it take you to learn to do this?
> Is your signature consistent? e.g. recognizeably yours from one
> signature to the next?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ger
>
> On 8/20/12, ckrugman at sbcglobal.net <ckrugman at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> Having been born blind I was taught to sign my name when I wasin high
>> school. However, my legal signature is an illegible scrawl but it is 
>> legally
>>
>> recognized. On documents where my signature needs to be understood I
will
>> type or have someone print my name next to it.
>> Chuck
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Gerard Sadlier" <gerard.sadlier at gmail.com>
>> To: "blindlaw" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 4:59 PM
>> Subject: [blindlaw] Signatures?
>>
>>
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> I am interested in knowing how people sign documents, with their
full
>>> names, initials, what?
>>>
>>> How long did it take you to learn this, if you did so when blind and
>>> what methods worked for you?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> G
>>>
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