How to Endorse a Check to a Third Party

Sign a check to a third party with a special endorsement.

When you endorse a check, your signature authorizes the bank on which the check is written to release funds to a person other than you or the check issuing party. Sign a third party check, which constitutes a special endorsement, in order to authorize someone other than you or the check issuing party to cash the check. Making a special endorsement means you cannot collect the funds from the check.

Instructions

1. Turn the check over to enter information on the back. Enter all information beneath the words, "Endorse Check Here" and above the line reading, "Do Not Write, Stamp or Sign Below This Line".

2. Use the verbiage that will authorize a third party to cash your check. Write, "Pay to the Order of" directly beneath the line, "Endorse Check Here".

3. 

   Sign your name to final the endorsement.

   Provide the third party's name and sign the authorization. Print the person's name who will cash the check below the words, "Pay to the Order of". Drop to the next line and endorse the check by signing your name. Release the check to the third party.

References

• MoneyInstructor.com: Endorse a Check Lesson