Recently Asked Questions (RAQs)

A patron came in and asked me to “witness a signature.” He was signing some bank document, but it didn’t need to be notarized, just witnessed. I realized he wasn’t signing his name, and when I asked him about it, he said that it was his aunt’s name and he had a Power of Attorney - he showed me those documents, so I ended up signing as a witness. But I felt uncomfortable about it. My understanding is if you have a POW, you should be signing your own name, not forging the signature of that other person. I asked my wife who is an attorney about it, and she said I shouldn’t have signed as a witness. This is a regular patron of ours, so I’m concerned not only that this will come up again, but that I will get pushback if I refuse to sign as a witness.