True Crime

When you buy your house, your lawyer, or usually a paralegal, goes to the courthouse, pays a fee of a few dollars and gives the paper to an employee who maybe makes $40k per year. That employee is not certified or even skilled on document forensics. The employee has no idea if the document is valid. It just gets filed on top of the preceding deeds to your property.

Your lawyer probably buys a pad of documents with the heading, "Deed." Your name, the name of the seller and the property description is typed onto the paper. The employee files the paper. Those blank documents are available online.


I can elaborate, but a Republican, down on his luck, might be reading this.

I suspect the real victim is the sucker who "bought" the property. However, the real homeowner will have legal expenses to nullify the false deed.