Penalty for forging someone's name and falsifying a notary seal and notary signature. If some has committed forgery in signing someone else's name on a city document that showed something had been corrected, and falsified a notary seal and notary's signature would that be a felony or criminal misdemeanor? There was no financial gain.
Forging someone's signature on a federal tax return is tax fraud and theoretically could be subject to criminal penalties. As a practical matter that would almost never happen if the only fraudulent action was forging your signature on the return.
In addition to the information in the previous response, note that the course you are considering - forging the signature of your late father on your birth certificate and using that document in support of an immigration application - not only is unlawful, but risks very harsh immigration-related consequences for visa fraud.
Let's see--the first punishment for being late is unexcused absence while forging a letter claimed to be by a doctor, if proven, will likely result in your suspension or detention for a more severe act of misconduct.
In general, a forgery is defined as "an unauthorized signature." If the signature was authorized, and no one was defrauded, there should be no criminal act. It is also a good idea to indicate you are signing for someone else so there is no issue about your intent. You can put your initials next to the signature, for example.
It is possible that the school could report you to the police for forging the doctor's note, and then you could face some minor criminal penalty, but I doubt it. Schools don't generally have an interest in pressing criminal issues that way; they just want their records to be accurate.
Do you have copies of the "contracts" you signed with the agreed upon sales numbers and also copies of the subsequently forged documents with different numbers? I would assume the numbers on the forged documents are NOT in your favor? What do you believe were the dealership's motives in forging the two documents?
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In your case, terminating an employee for forging your signature is perfectly legal. Just make sure the employee is told, in no uncertain terms, that the forgery is the reason for the termination. Don't try to soft-pedal the termination by saying something like, we've decided to let you go because it's just not working.
Is faking and forging a will illegal? My boyfriends dad died and his half sisters faked his will and forged his signature. They put in this fake will that everything was left to them.
