As we all know indexing errors are very irritating, but more importantly they can be very costly to the title examiner. In the old days you could point out the error to a deputy clerk and ususally they would correct it right there while you looked over their shoulder. The looking over the shoulder had the practical affect of making sure the error was corrected and also making sure that the correction was notated on the day it was made, rather than scribbled in the margin between at the point it should have been entered in the first place, thus giving you and other examiners some proctection that the error wasn't missed in some prior search.

Now that many of the indices can be checked by a computer search, I have made it a practice to print out the index of the names that I am running, at the time of the search, and making that a part of my file. That way I will have a record that the Judgment, Lis Pendens, Construction Lien, and Fed Tax, thereby proving that the name/names I was checking either were or were not in the compter data base at the time of my exam. This takes a few more minutes time and can not be done in all courthouses, but it sure allows me sleep eaiser, knowing that I got some evidence to back up my exam.

Also, to add a further danger in checking the names of women on some computer syestems, the dolts that program these things, in some of the counties that I work, have indexed the woman's name with "Mrs." as the first name. So now if you have a "Mary Smith" for example, you have to run Smith, Mary and also, Smith, Mrs. to find the listing.

Hope this will help some of y'all,

James
Hope this will help some of y'all.

Take care,

James

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