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Should There Be A Title Theft Statute?
Recent years have seen numerous reports of what has colloquially been called "property theft" or "deed theft." To fight deed theft in New York, the state Attorney General has championed a statute, now introduced in the state legislature, making "Property Theft" a crime. Would the statute be helpful? Answering that question requires some background.
No one is physically staling recorded deeds. Instead, the chicanery falls into two basic patterns, with variations. In the first pattern, the true owner of the property plays no role in the illegitimate transfer of title, and may be completely unaware of the supposed theft. A forger locates a property, typically with an absentee owner (sometimes the heir of the previous owner), and prepares a deed on the owner's behalf, and then uses fake identification papers to present the deed to a notary for notarization, which enables recording of the deed. At that point, the forger is ready to resell the property or to seek mortgage financing on the security of the property.
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