[Blindtlk] Signing Your Name.

[David Evans]

Dear Mary,

He is required to sign his forms and any other legal documents.
He can sign with an "X" if that is all he can do and you can get a 
statement, notarized that the "x" is his signature in all legal matters.
You can also have him "sign" a power of Attorney, giving you the power to 
sign for him in all legal matters.
You would need to send a copy of this along with your tax returns to the 
IRS.
I am totally Blind and sign my name on checks and legal forms all of the 
time and he can learn to do the same , if he wants too.
It just sounds like he is hiding behind his blindness.  He is giving up his 
independence because he is afraid to try.
A signature guide would be just the thing to help him stay on the line and 
keep from writing all over the place.
I write from memory and I hardly ever even use a signature guide, except 
when the place to sign is small and I have to be specific in its placement.

It sounds as if he maybe bitter and he is rebelling against his blindness 
and the world by trying not to cooperate with you and do anything that will 
show others he is blind and can not do things.
He is just not trying to help himself or you for that matter.
Good Luck with him.
Try to get him around other positive blind people, who are doing the right 
things and using their independence such as traveling independently.  It 
will given time, rub off on him.

David Evans, NFBF and GD Jack.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mary Mc Gee" <mmcatitude at gmail.com>
To: "'Blind Talk Mailing List'" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 12:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Signing Your Name.


> Dear Fellow Federationists;
>
>            I need some original thinking here, I believe.  It's tax time
> and, as you know, when you're married, sometimes you choose to file a 
> joint
> return, which both you and your spouse must sign.  I have no problem doing
> this; I'm the one who prepares the thing with the Schedules, etc.  My
> husband, who is totally blind, can't sign his name legibly.  (It's 
> debatable
> whether my signature is legible.)  Anyway, last year the IRS sent the 
> return
> back saying the "spouse's signature is not authentic".  The IRS accepted
> mine but not his.  He refuses to use one of those signature guides or
> anything else like that.  He writes at an angle and the letters overlap. 
> He
> says he shouldn't have to know how to sign his name.  I disagree.  Every
> year at tax time we argue about this because he feels, being blind, he
> shouldn't be expected to know how to make a legible signature.  I argue
> that, since the majority of people working for the government are sighted
> and the signature is your verification, you need to sign government
> documents.
>
>            I guess my question is two-fold:
>
> 1.  Does anyone have any suggestions with respect to convincing him that 
> he
> needs to make a signature?
>
> 2.  Has anyone else had a document returned, when a blind person signed it
> and the government refused to accept the signature?
>
>            Last near, I took the think to Sen. Harkin's office and
> explained the problem.  I signed release, they took over and sent the 
> return
> to the IRS, and I never heard another word till our refund check came.
>
>            Thanks for your input.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Mary L. McGee
>
>
>
>
>
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