A question about changing ones name.

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by Berkeley

That sounds kinda backwoods-ish to me.

That sounds like an ignorant statement to me.

My name is pronounced the same, I had always spelled it a different way all of my life and finally had it changed.

[berkeley]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

That sounds like an ignorant statement to me.

My name is pronounced the same, I had always spelled it a different way all of my life and finally had it changed.

I need the forms. Want it changed on my SSN and DL.

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by Berkeley

I need the forms. Want it changed on my SSN and DL.

I forgot who I contacted. Bureau of Vital Statistics or something.

[Ferd]

That reminds me of a story.

My great uncle was born Jay Asbury Miller. His middle name was a family name. It was his grandfathers middle name.

But Uncle Jay hated that name and one day he came home and told his family that he had legally changed his middle name to Brown.

He did all his business as Jay Brown Miller and even his own children thought that was his name.... until he died....

all his business and even his home was listed under the name Jay Brown Miller but when he died (his wife preceeded him in death) and his estate went thru probate, it was discovered that he had never really legally changed his name!

Dude just did it himself! LOL! I think it added some headache to his kids dealing with probate but not too much.

We all did get one final laugh from Uncle Jay. He was a great man with a very dry sense of humor.

[Neck]

It not the why, where.... it is to what?

[Neck]

Originally Posted by Ferd

That reminds me of a story.

My great uncle was born Jay Asbury Miller. His middle name was a family name. It was his grandfathers middle name.

But Uncle Jay hated that name and one day he came home and told his family that he had legally changed his middle name to Brown.

He did all his business as Jay Brown Miller and even his own children thought that was his name.... until he died....

all his business and even his home was listed under the name Jay Brown Miller but when he died (his wife preceeded him in death) and his estate went thru probate, it was discovered that he had never really legally changed his name!

Dude just did it himself! LOL! I think it added some headache to his kids dealing with probate but not too much.

We all did get one final laugh from Uncle Jay. He was a great man with a very dry sense of humor.

My wife's birth name that was given was "Ann Elizabeth Taylor".

When family members started calling her "Liz" after Elizabeth Taylor the actress.

Her mom legally changed it when she was around 3 to "Ann Michelle Taylor".

We have a bCertificate that shows the date handwritten back in 1968 where they wrote the change in the county books...

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by Ferd

That reminds me of a story.

My great uncle was born Jay Asbury Miller. His middle name was a family name. It was his grandfathers middle name.

But Uncle Jay hated that name and one day he came home and told his family that he had legally changed his middle name to Brown.

He did all his business as Jay Brown Miller and even his own children thought that was his name.... until he died....

all his business and even his home was listed under the name Jay Brown Miller but when he died (his wife preceeded him in death) and his estate went thru probate, it was discovered that he had never really legally changed his name!

Dude just did it himself! LOL! I think it added some headache to his kids dealing with probate but not too much.

We all did get one final laugh from Uncle Jay. He was a great man with a very dry sense of humor.

[My Own Eyes]

Originally Posted by Berkeley

Alright, if someone wants to have a legal name change, must it be done in the state in which they were born?

You can get married...that is a easy way to change your name

[dizzyde]

Originally Posted by Ferd

That reminds me of a story.

My great uncle was born Jay Asbury Miller. His middle name was a family name. It was his grandfathers middle name.

But Uncle Jay hated that name and one day he came home and told his family that he had legally changed his middle name to Brown.

He did all his business as Jay Brown Miller and even his own children thought that was his name.... until he died....

all his business and even his home was listed under the name Jay Brown Miller but when he died (his wife preceeded him in death) and his estate went thru probate, it was discovered that he had never really legally changed his name!

Dude just did it himself! LOL! I think it added some headache to his kids dealing with probate but not too much.

We all did get one final laugh from Uncle Jay. He was a great man with a very dry sense of humor.

My dads legal name is Roney or Ronney, I can't remember which. He has gone by Ronnie his whole life, I don't know what my grandparents were thinking. Of course, his mother is the person who has gone by her middle name her entire life, Lenora (legal name Roberta Lenora) and turns around and names my aunt Roberta Delisa, the same first name she will not use. My aunt goes by Lisa...

[dizzyde]

Originally Posted by My Own Eyes

You can get married...that is a easy way to change your name