New Thumbprint Law Should Help Reduce Deed Fraud
- Share via
In a move that’s expected to help reduce real estate fraud, California has become the first state to require all property deed signers to leave a thumbprint in the notary public’s journal.
The law, passed unanimously by the Legislature and signed earlier this month by Gov. Pete Wilson, expands throughout the state a successful three-year Los Angeles County pilot program.
Specifically, the law requires the signers of real estate deeds, quitclaim deeds and deeds of trust to affix a right thumbprint in the notary’s official journal. Exempted are signers of deeds of reconveyance and of trustee’s deeds resulting from a foreclosure.
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
It turns out you can burn down a neighborhood and not destroy a community. We’ve seen evidence of this all across L.A. and so we will head back to one neighborhood that’s a good example of that bond: West Poppyfields Drive in Altadena.
Today we discuss one of the pivotal events of the 1960s: the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Though the gunman was caught at the scene, confessed at trial, and even bragged about the shooting, his motives have largely been forgotten.
For this episode of De Los Podcast, hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito sit down with Sen Dog, founding member and rapper of Cypress Hill — one of the first Latino hip-hop groups to break into the American mainstream.
