Name: "forgery"? (Penal Code 470)
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-Penal code 470 defines a crime of forgery.

they think about signing somebody else's name

So I steal a check from the checkbook of Dolores Smith

and I write a check to myself, and I sign her name.

And really that's a kind of classic example of forgery.

But under California law, the legal definition of forgery

Forgery is any time you create, use, or alter

a document for the purpose of defrauding others.

So for example, suppose I'm the executor of my dad's will.

And it's basically 20,000 to what each of the five children.

But I go and alter the will so that it says 50,000 goes to me,

and the rest is divided among my siblings.

even if I don't change the signature itself.

Or if I submit a wrongful workers' compensation claim.

And I assert that I'm injured, when I'm really not.

Or I assert that I have not been working, when really I've

So it's any time that you use a written document