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No i haven't....bu you do need one depending on the place. I wanted to change my middle name when i got married, but i would have to have done a name change TWICE so i just took my husband's last name. yMy mom said she tried to change my middle name when i was a kid and the process was like $250...=(
In Ohio if you want to do anything other than change your last name when you get married, you have to go to Probate Court and tell them why. It's absolutely silly, but it's true. I asked.
-Bella
This is crazy. I wonder what the rules are in Texas.
I want to be MyFirst MyMiddle MyMaidenLast FI Last (basically I want my current middle name and my maiden name to become my middle name).
@ ejs - Finding out it's $250 is exactly what I'm afraid of! I think the actual court part won't be too bad but what with trying to buy a house and everything else, there's not exactly a lot of spare change floating around! I found a $60 quote and even though it was from 2004 and in a different county I'm hoping it's close.
@ texasmeredith - I would guess that you'll probably be ok... or at least, Wyoming wasn't going to have a problem with it, but then again Bella wouldn't have much luck in Ohio... I guess there's really no way to know until you get there. Good luck!
One of my friends got married and replaced her middle name with her last name (she hated her middle name). She signed with her new name on her marriage license, and was able to use her marriage license to get a new drivers license...and so on and so forth until all of her documents were updated. This was in the state of Georgia.
I am also planning on making my current last name my middle name. It shouldn't be a problem b/c I currently don't have a middle name. We are getting married in jamaica but will reside in South Carolina. I currently live in North Carolina so my master plan is to have everything changed while here so that the DMV will be the only place I need to go to twice.
I am horrendously boring and will be taking my FI's last name...it should be minimal effort, but I am willing to do whatever it takes because I cannot wait to share a last name with my hubby!
...let me clarify that my friend took her husbands last name...she just replaced her original middle name with her maiden name. I will also take my husband's last name....I am just bumping my last name over to the currently empty middle name slot =)
I have had "middle name envy" for years. I have 6 siblings and can you guys believe that I am the ONLY ONE without a middle name?? Crap I tell ya!!
I want to change my last name, but I'm not even going to bother until we move back to the states! It's still 2-3 years with my maiden name, but "legally" in the state of oregon I'm firstname hislast, so I've already gotten in the habit of telling people I meet that's my name.
all the documents required to physically change my name - from another continent - are too much hassle right now. (new passport, new visa(s), new chilean driver's license, new us dl, new chilean id card - that's just the obvious stuff!)
No kidding Bearcub! I'd definitely be waiting if I were out of the country. My biggest motivator is actually trying to buy a house. I'd rather get it done now so that I'll have fewer things to change than if I don't get it done until afterwards. Can't do much about it this week though. The whole city's pretty much shutting down for a snow day! Woohoo!
That's strange that it requires so much effort. I only took my husband's last name but all they did was look at my marriage license and my drivers license and asked what I wanted my name to be now.
I just want his name. I don't really care what it will take. It will be super annoying, but I think it's worth it.
MissAsB - Jealous! And in Alabama? Who would have guessed?! Go Bama! ;-)
UGH, I was totally into changing my name, but we only have one car (which Mr. Peng takes to work every day) and it's a huge PITA for me to try to get to a bunch of government offices. I don't have the patience to wait in line for something like this, so I just didn't change my name!
I'm looking forward to changing my name, just not the paperwork that comes with it
Changing my name was important to me. Even just taking his name was a lot of work and money, but I know I'd be upset to have a different name than my husband and future children so it's all worth it.
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So. I want to change my name to First MaternalFamilyName Maiden HisLast. I have gone in three (four?) times now and have gotten a different answer every time. First Social Security tells me that my marriage certificate isn't good enough - I need a document that shows my birthdate and my new name and recommends that I get an official copy of my marriage license application. Seeing as the county we got married in is 5 hours away and they need notorized copies I try and find another way around.
So I get dolled up and go to the DMV. They don't bat an eye at my request to add my Maiden as a middle name but say they can't change my current middle name without proof that it's a family name and recommend bringing in my birth certificate. Ok, that's also 5 hours away but I get my dad to mail me a copy. In the meantime I tried going down to Colorado SS (thinking they might be more lenient) but for some stupid reason convinced myself that there's no way they'd let me freaked out and left. (Damn hormones.)
Round Two at the DMV: Again I get dolled up and go in, this time accompanied by my husband (he wants to add my Maiden as a middle) and my birth certificate. Again, Maiden to Middle is no problem but my birth certificate's no longer good enough. Now I need a court order! So then it's my husband's turn and they say there's a 50/50 chance that he'll need a court order to add my Maiden name as a Middle (the people who would know were out to lunch.) So much for Wyoming being the Equality State! (They were the first to allow women to vote.) Apparently it only goes one way.
When I mention it's odd that my parents did this 25+ years ago without a problem and that I was sure it was less common back then he mentioned 9/11 and heightened security. Damn terrorists making things difficult in our everyday lives on top of all the other horrid things that they do!
So I joked with my husband on the way out that if only I hadn't taken a shower this morning and had come in all grungy I would have walked away with my new name but I was only halfway kidding. I think I might try it next time.
Has anyone else gotten a court ordered name change? Or if faced with the decision did you just go with whatever they'd let you do without one? I haven't been able to find out how much it's likely to cost yet but I'm afraid it's going to be expensive and I'll have to decide just how much my materal name is worth to me. :-(
ETA: My apologies, I didn't realize I wrote a novel!