What are the ramifications offalsifying professional licensing records?
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What are the ramifications offalsifying professional licensing records?
I am studying for the exam to become a licensed real estate agent. I do not think I’ll be able to pass the test and am contemplating hiring someone to take it for me. What would the legal ramifications be if someone found out after I was a practicing member of the Real Estate Association?
Asked on October 20, 2011 under Real Estate Law, California
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FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
If you do not take the examination to be a licensed real estate agent in the State of California personally, but rather have someone else take the examination for you, the conduct of both you and the person taking the examination is fraudulent.
If California's Department of Real Estate discover's the impropriety that you suggest in your question, a criminal investigation and perhaps charges could be filed against you and the person taking the examination for you where if convicted, jail time and monetary fines could be imposed.
If the examination is passed for you by another person where a license is issued by California's Department of Real Estate to you, and it is discovered that you never took the examination, your license as a real estate agent will be repealed and you most likely will never be able to obtain such a license in this state.
I recommend that you personally study for the examination and that you personally take the examination.
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