Re: Have you ever legally changed your name?

Laura14 · ‎06-09-2014

Maybe the better question here might be how many of us changed our names and are now on the run from the law?

I had to stand up in front of a judge and swear I was not doing that before I got my new name. I must look like I am up to no good.

Preds · ‎12-17-2012

Every time I get married.

Fate whispers to her, "You cannot withstand the storm." She whispers back, "I am the storm."

sunshine 919 · ‎12-22-2013

@lucymo wrote:
Only my last name when I was married.

Me too. I also kept my married name when I got divorced. Did not want a different last name from my son.

Caaareful Shopper · ‎10-09-2012

Yes. Last name changed when I got married. After I got divorced, I kept the married name because by then we had a son. After my son turned 21 I asked him how he felt that I had decided to go back to my maiden name. He thought that was perfectly fine. I couldn't just start using my maiden name because it was more than three years after the divorce, so I had to go through whole legal rigamarole of filing papers to get approval to change to a name that was already mine. I will never change my name again.

YorkieonmyPillow · ‎01-13-2013

I don't like my first name, so I go by a nic.

Golden_Oldie · ‎03-10-2010

I took my DH's last name. Now it's interesting because his last name is legally spelled. Three different times it was misspelled. BIL and an Uncle spell it differently.

All the important papers have the spelling as he has used it.

"God created memories so that we might have roses in December." - Italo Svevo

hsawaknow · ‎03-15-2011

I was married over 20 years and yes I took my husbands last name. My first name is Spanish and my ex's husband last name is Spanish, when we went to court the judge asked me if I wanted to go back to my maiden name. Since I still had a 7 year old and a 14 year old, not to mention, credit cards in my name, deeds to the house, the car and property It only made sense to keep my maiden last name. Its funny I get offers for credit cards, People magazine in Spanish and Travel magazine in Spanish, not to mention coupins and free offers. Its more of a pain to change it back so for my kids and my self I just kept it.

Sleep sweet Bo 3/19/08 8/4/18

LilacTree · ‎03-25-2012

@Preds wrote:
Every time I get married.

@Preds

Ha ha, you're so comical Preds . . . you always get a giggle out of me!!

Formerly Ford1224
We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel 1986