Agreement signed but the recopent believes that is not valid

Report · Feb 15, 2019

Hello,

I wonder if someone could help. All parties agreed on the contract and it was sent out to everyone, last person used drawing option and it does not reflect the first and last name. One of the party believes that the agreement is not valid in this case. I was hoping that someone knows if that is correct ?

I think, because the person reviewed it and sign it using there shorter way of signature it should be valid as that person has been assigned to the email address the agreement was sent to but cannot find any evidence . Could someone help? Would you also have any evidence from reliable source?

Thank you in advance.

Mags

Report · Feb 17, 2019

Mags,

eSignature has less to do with what the signature looks like and more with how the user is authenticated (associated) with a role on the signing document, whether they agreed to conduct business electronically, and what mark or image they chose to represent their signature (for visual verification of where the esignature is placed).

The authentication can be as simple as using a known email for a person. So, if they choose an X or some other squiggly line for their signature that's different than how their wet / physical signature looks on paper, that still works.

If your signers have any doubts, have them refer to the ESIGN act of 2000 here for additional legal details: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-106publ229/html/PLAW-106publ229.htm . it's summarized well on Wikipedia: Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act - Wikipedia

Good luck.

Arash Sayadi

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