In Common Construction Defects, expert witness Pete Fowler describes how substandard construction during Southern California's 1980s building boom has created a construction defect litigation “industry.” He writes:

Attorneys, acting as advocates for homeowners, hire these experts in the effort to prove that shoddy workmanship is causing new homes to rapidly deteriorate. Meanwhile, the home building industry, put on the defensive, is claiming that the real problem is unscrupulous attorneys who are feeding off the media coverage and exploiting the legal system. The reality is probably somewhere in between. Regardless, residential construction in Southern California has never been so thoroughly scrutinized.

In Checklist of Suspicious Features, Jacqueline A. Joseph, Certified Document Examiner and handwriting expert witness writes:

If you have a suspicious document or handwriting or typewriting, these clues should alert you to the need for a document examiner:

No one knows the document’s origin or the history of its custody.

The text of the document seems to anticipate and answer objections that will be raised against it, especially peculiar ones.

The materials or the literary form of the document are not what you would usually expect in such cases. For example, a will purports to be a formal one drawn up by an attorney, but the paper is ordinary bond. Another example would be a will that uses archaic terminology that contemporary attorneys no longer employ.

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