How to Legally Change Your Name With Out a Lawyer

By Benjamin O. Anosike

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0932704069
• ISBN13: 9780932704061
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: Do It Yourself Legal Pub
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Only YOU can change your name, not a court.

The best thing I got out of this book was the fact that you don't need to do anything to change your name other than just using it. It is called "common usage". In fact, when people throw away hundreds of dollars to have a "legal name change" in a court, they are only getting a peice of paper by the court that certifies that you yourself changed your own name, as they have no authority to change your name, only YOU can do that. A perfect example is when a woman gets married. The marriage certificate has her maiden name printed on it, and is not an official name change. The woman can decide HERSELF if she wishes to keep her maiden name, or use her husband's name. To use her husband's name, she just USES it and notifies everyone of her name change. Likewise, after a divorce, the woman does not need to go to court of file expensive papers to change her name back, she and she alone has the authority to do that. But men have that same legal right as well, and marriage doesn't even have anything to do with legally changing your name. Yes, it is getting increasingly difficult to get certain companies, drivers license facilities, and Social Security to change your name, only because most times the person you are dealing with is ignorant of the law and not educated on the fact that you don't need to show them any court papers of a name change, or a marriage certificate. I have found that when you run into someone that gives you a problem, call or come back another day and talk to someone else. If the DMV or SS doesn't want to do it, go to the OTHER one and see if they will do it, then use that form of ID and go back to the other one, and that usually works for most people. Since 9/11, many states are trying to implement rules with their DMV and such that are going against our rights to change our names on our own without any courts or fees. But this is not the first time states have made laws or procedures that went against federal laws or constitutional rights, so you just have to educate them of thier mistake. Ironically, changing the name on drivers license and SS card was not a problem. Utilities and credit cards even easier yet. But a certain loan company seems to want to be difficult and refused to update their records to the new name. They are just ignorant and uneducated to the facts, and refuse to accept a state driver's license or Social Security Card as proof of name change. They say they want to see a copy of a marriage certificate. Yet no marriage certificate can be shown to them, as the county did not require you to purchase a copy in order to be married, so there is nothing to show, but even if a copy WAS available, it would show the MAIDEN name of the woman, and is NOT PROOF that the woman decided to change her name and use her husband's name instead. So long as you are not changing your name for purposes of fraud, anyone can change their name themselves, just by "common usage" and using the name and notifying everyone that the