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Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Here We Go Again

January 2018 has started with great anticipation and speed. January seems to be recognized as a New Beginning. What seems to come into the New Year is the good and bad actions of people. As a Forensic Document Examiner, those actions usually increase my business because someone usually lets their greed show. There were words to a song made popular many years ago that said, "Using things and loving people that's the way it's got to be". It would be wonderful if that was a true description. Many times what is seen instead is loving things and using people. If you have found yourself in a situation of fraud and are in shock, contact me. If you need handwriting compared, contact me. I never charge for a consultation.
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Thursday, July 13, 2017

Superior Court Phoenix Arizona Qualifies Brenda Petty as an Expert Witness

Superior Court Judge Susan Brnovich, Maricopa County, Phoenix Arizona qualifies Brenda Petty as an expert witness.

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You've Got a Friend

We all like to have a friend in a conflict. A friend stands by your side; gives good advice and encouragement and sometimes is just the quiet in the storm. A Forensic Document Examiner helps many people in their times of chaos and storm. Yet, we can't be seen as an advocate of the person who hires us but an advocate of the opinion we reach by careful examination. That being said, the opinion we reach can be a great relief for the person who engages our services. That opinion can be a friend during the storm. It can calm the nerves and help give encouragement and direction. If you have a document that needs an examination, contact me today. www.ExpertHandwritingExaminer.com

Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Oklahoma Forensic Document Examiner

It is sometimes difficult to find a forensic document examiner that is in the same state where a document issue occurs. Brenda Petty resides in Oklahoma and can assist those in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri, and Louisiana as well as anywhere else in the United States or Internationally. Call her today 580-467-4786.

Monday, July 10, 2017

Skill Level

Every person who writes has their own skill level. Skill level represents one's ability to construct letter, character and number forms, the size and shape of letter, character and number forms and how one places them on the writing surface. The wonderful thing about skill level is that no one can write above their own skill level. They can write below their skill level but never above. This is one of the considerations always made when handwriting is being compared. Someone with a high skill level may write below that skill level in order to 'throw off the scent' (one might say) for the person who is comparing the writing. But when writing is being compared by a forensic document examiner and that writer has a higher skill level than the person who was supposed to have been the writer, it is readily known that person could not be the writer. Likewise, when a person is on drugs (street or prescription) that affect the brain or that person is in a drunken state, it becomes impossible for them to write at a higher skill level than they do when sober. In the field of Forensic Document Examination consideration of skill level is a very important part of the examination process. Call me today: 580-467-4786

Thursday, September 8, 2016

What Is Brain writing?

Brain writing is when the subconscious has something to do with what is being written. We can control our conscious actions in our writing, such as when we print. But, it has been illustrated time and again that when we write in cursive we can't control what the brain inserts into the writing. The next time you sign your name or write something in cursive, take a few minutes and look at it. Does it have skips in the writing? Does it have dots in the writing? These are things you didn't do on your own. These are things that the brain has a part in doing. This is part of the reason that a person's writing becomes individualistic. When a person's muscles, nerves and brain combine together they become a force to be reckoned with and individual handwriting occurs.

Saturday, September 3, 2016

How Individual is my Handwriting?

Sargur N. Srihari is a computer scientist and educator who has made progress with pattern recognition and developed software known as Cedar-Fox (granted a U.S. Patent in 2009) used by the US Postal Office primarily for handwritten address systems. Through his efforts, it has moved handwriting as being individualistic from just a concept to a reality. His software program can identify several aspects of writing and correspond it to individuals. While the software program is great, it hasn't reached a point yet of having the human approach to establishing genuineness to a writing or signature. A forensic document examiner that conducts their business ethically and with one and only one purpose and that finding the truth about the writing is still the best thing going. If you have a problem with a document, call me today or visit my web-site www.ExpertHandwritingExaminer.com

Wednesday, August 24, 2016

That Is Not My Signature

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Our signature becomes part of who we are. It is common knowledge that our fingerprints are different than any other person's fingerprints. What isn't common knowledge is that our signatures can be as individualized as fingerprints. One of the best defenses against identity theft is to graft a signature that is individualized and difficult to assimilate.