Professional Handwriting Analysts & Forensic Handwriting Experts
 

Forensic Services

Questioned Document Examiners are concerned with the examination of documents to establish authenticity, or lack of authenticity,
or authorship. Through scientific examination of the physical features of documents the examiner may discover alterations, and / or deletions; decipher obliterations; develop indented writing impressions; determine authorship.

Applying scientific principles, the Forensic Handwriting Examiner analyses and evaluates the evidence discovered and reaches
reasonable and valid opinions, writes reports, and gives testimony when needed to aid the client or court to arrive at the truth.
The validity and importance of handwriting patterns in questioned documents work have been established for many years.

The scientific examination of the physical feature of documents for forensic purposes is separate and apart from psychological
evaluation of handwriting (graphology). The Questioned documents examiner does not attribute any "personality" conclusions to any
writing being studied as part of a disputed document.

The Handwriting identification expert makes critical examinations, comparison and analyses of documents to establish genuineness or to expose forgery or to reveal alterations, additions and deletions. His task is to identify persons through documents or parts of documents, by showing the authorship of handwriting, to aid in fixing liability or culpability for any kind of fraud that makes use of documents; and generally to help protect the integrity of documents.

Handwriting identification is a skill and a science that is based on axioms, principles, theories and knowledge that have accumulated through the hundreds of years that handwriting has been studied.

Handwriting identification has been recognized and accepted by the courts as far back as A.D.539. In the US, it has been accepted
in the courts, as substantial evidence, for over 180 years.

It is well known that qualified handwriting examiners can and do reach accurate conclusions of identity given sufficient comparison standards to work from.

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