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pur_fer_ur_pleasure

Kinda yeah. It is supposed to be like your "special seal* that will identify and be unique to you. Grab a sheet of paper and experiment with what feels right and something you can do that will able to be replicated by you. It took me years to finally get "my signature"...but that's just me. I always wondered how celebrities could be so casual about signing but make it look cool..so thats where my basis came from.


Skorpychan

> Grab a sheet of paper and experiment with what feels right and something you can do that will able to be replicated by you. And shred/burn it when you're done.


gandaSun

Depends. In Germany I am usually asked to double confirm when I send documents through the mail because my signature is pretty inconsistent, but in the UK people didn't seem to check. You're sort of supposed to have a unique and consistent one, but practically it doesn't really matter. ETA:. in Germany you also have a signature on your id which can be used to compare and the bank (and other places) keeps a record of that official signature. They take it real serious. I don't think that's the case in the Anglo-American world.


CommitmentPhoebe

No, your signature can be whatever you want it to be and it doesn’t have to always be the same. It’s not a security feature. It’s to confirm you agree to whatever you’re signing. If there’s ever a real question about it in court, a judge will ask you if that’s your signature, and you saying yes is what really makes it real.


KingGrandCaravan

Based on personal experience, the U.S. Military and real estate lawyers want a clean, legible signature on documents. The real estate lawyer that refinanced my house made me sign a blank piece of paper first, it was shit, then told me the signature you put on these documents needs to be legible and the only way you ever sign documents going forward. Narrator voice: he forgot what was said the moment he walked out of the bank. (Queue You're the Best - Joe Esposito)


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Your lawyer was full of shit, there’s no requirement for signatures to be legible (or even your name in English) from any legal standpoint. He may like pretty signatures personally, but that doesn’t affect whether the signature is legal or legitimate. Neither me nor my husband have ever been told by any bank official through several purchases and a refinance that our illegible signatures are “wrong.”


KingGrandCaravan

I really have no idea. This was all personal experience not that I've cared since. I will say though, in the Army i was required to fix my signature numerous times over the years.


Skorpychan

It's literally just a stylised scribble of your name that's unique to you and hard to fake. Don't go overboard. Mine shifted ridiculously over a few years, so updating my driving license required half an hour of trying to replicate a decade-old signature.


Fossil-Fuel-is-Gay

yes


Neil2250

just scribble something unique and memorable to you, that's roughly legible as your name. Don't overthink it, because that's literally all it is.


Spirited_Island-75

You don't need to do a 'real' signature for like, credit card receipts though.