Dumb question about mortgage deed form

Pandilex

This is a dumb question but I don't want to risk anything going wrong...

Solicitor's letter said sign it, and get a witness to sign it, print their name, fill in their address and occupation.

However the form has no box for occupation, just one for witness name (sign and print) and one for address.

Should they write their occupation somewhere else on the form outside the box or will this mess things up? Or do I just leave it?

Sorry for such a trivial question but I don't want to delay it if I do it wrong and have to post it back and forth

dominoman

If the form doesn't ask for occupation then it isn't needed. It wasn't needed on my mortgage deeds either.

If you do want to include it and write outside the box then there is no harm in doing that.

Thrugelmir

Ask your solicitors office.

ladyabouttown

The solicitors letter is just a standard letter, they should update depending on circumstances, but they are just too lazy...

My deed paper had a second page with stuff about deed of consent and deed of guarantor where it asks for occupation...

So it'll be for those types where they need to add occupation.

Pandilex

Thanks everyone

G_M

It will do no harm to add the occupation outside the box, next to the name.

Or inside the box together with the name.

benjus

My solicitor sent a letter asking for witness's occupation (on the lease deed form, not the mortgage deed form, I think), then on the form itself they had handwritten in pencil the things for the witness to fill in - which did not include occupation.

The witness just filled in the pencilled fields and I forgot to ask them to put their occupation. The solicitor didn't complain though, and the purchase completed last week.