Posted by Art_MD on 11/30/05 11:29am
Msg #79251

backdating and journal

Just a curiosity question.

I wonder what the journal would look like if there was another closing between the actual date and the backdate requested.

Smith signs journal on 11/29/05
Tonight there is a closing for jones and backdated to 11/28/05.

Would be a little hard to explain the sequence in a journal if ever questioned. Would be hard to convince me that you went back because you "forgot" to have the journal signed.

Art

Reply by NM_CO on 11/30/05 11:31am
Msg #79252

lol. Yes, a little hard to explain, indeed. It amazes me that anyone asks notaries to back date on anything and it amazes me more that notaries do it.

Reply by JD_inMD on 11/30/05 11:44am
Msg #79255

Maybe anyone who backdates would not worry about any kind of journal either lol.

Reply by Beth/MD on 11/30/05 11:46am
Msg #79257

The sad truth is those notaries that do backdate usually don't get caught. How many times has your journal been audited?

Reply by ReneeK_MI on 11/30/05 3:55pm
Msg #79342

Especially in MI, one of the states that doesn't require a journal ... they "suggest" it, and most of us 'by the book' types use it, but ... back-dating isn't exactly by the book, now is it?!