Topic: anyone here know how hard/expensive it is to legally change your name?

[bucky katt]

dont want to go into the why fors right now but i am looking at changing my last name to my moms maiden name. i'm not in legal trouble or anything of that sort, there is a very personal reason for it though.

[Hush]

Oh OK I thought you were going to change it to Bucky Katt!
Here it's a quick trip to the court house and $30, wait a few weeks while they make sure you are who you say you are before you become who you would like to become.

[Raul CB750K1]

In Spain, people have two last names, first one your father's, second one your mother's


I never bothered to change mine, I just sign and write just the initial of my first last name.

I inherited my first last name from my dad, but it has never been his. He inherited it from his dad, and so on and so forth. I don't have the right to deprive my future generations from the last name that God knows from where it comes. What I do is trying to be a good person so my kids will be proud of having such a last name, and not like me, if you catch my drift.

If you are upset with your dad, your last name is not something he gave you because it was not his in first place. It comes from your ancestors, it is engraved in your very DNA, and you can probably change your name but you can't change your DNA. Be who you are, be a good man and make your last name something to be proud of.

[bucky katt]

when my mom died back in late 2005 my "former brothers" who are actually half bnrothers, we had the same father, different mothers. their mom died in 60' dad married my mom in 67' and i came along in 68' i never ever thought of them as anything but my brothers though and my mom treated them and my sister (who passed in 80) like she gave birth to them. when mom died my former brothers really showed their true colors, said that they hated the fact our dad married my mom, resented her being there, my mom broke my dads spirit, basically they hated my mother, who like i said treated them as her own, they told me they never thought of me as anything but an interloper too. the entire emmons (my dads family) all felt the same way about my mom, who was the greatest mother anyone could possibly have. it has gotten to the point that i no longer want to be associated with my former brothers or the rest of the clan. i know my dad would understand and likely would support my decision. i dont use the word hate usually, there are many people i really dislike but just a few that i truly feel hatred for, the only ones in fact are my dads family. the Latinas (my moms family) have always been a wonderful, loving, kindhearted family, they also treated my former brothers like family too. i would be proud to have their last name and i no longer want to be associated with the emmons' pretty much. pretty much if one of my former brothers were on fire i wouldnt piss on them to put it out.

[Raul CB750K1]

I see your point, but even changing your name, you can't escape the fact that you and your "half brothers" are just brothers. In spanish, brother is "hermano" but there is no word for "half-brother", as regardless of whether you have the same mother or father, you are just brothers. There is the word "hermanastro", used when there is no common blood, like if your dad marries a woman who already have offspring with some other man.

Changing your name you are not only refusing your brothers, you are refusing your dad too. Don't take no offence for what I tell you, but changing your name is not like coming and going of a forum, you have to understand the implications -and the legal implications are the least important in my opinion-. You are yourself, your name is a social thing and you won't be somebody different from changing your name, you will be the same and your brothers will still be your brothers, and you can't change your bloodline from changing your name.


Just my 2 cents, you know.

[lordmoonpie]

It's pretty cheap here in the UK too - about £50 I think to change your name by deed poll. In my first job there was a guy who changed his name to "Fungus the Bogeyman"! We used to get parcels in the mailroom addressed to Mr F. The Bogeyman

[Inigo Montoya]

Actually raul, you CAN be perceived as a different person. I ditched my stepfathers last name a few years ago. Before I did so, I had a hard time finding jobs. I wondered why. I did good interviews and new my stuff. Here people do background checks BUT they do it by NAME. My name is not spelled the standard way but most people are too lazy to do it the right way, it is only 1 letter difference. Well that difference pulled up a person with a couple pages for a criminal record such as escaping the prison and criminal intent along with a laundry list including theft. I on the other hand had a speeding ticket. I change my name and lo and behold, a job right away. The old name was never a benefit in anyway. Half the family could not get along with the other half. I also did not feel bod for doing it as my stepfather was a complete asss, not just a partial one like ed but a complete one. Dealing with this guy would make ed look like the pope.

Bottom line is you have to do what is right for YOU not some moldy ancestor. If this is what he feels is right, then so be it. I am sure his dad would understand as you generally know it when a whole family does not like someone.

[bucky katt]

pretty much, the entire Emmons clan has disowned me. i truly believe that my dad would understand why i'm doing this, but then if my dad was still alive i wouldnt be doing this because the 2 faced bastard former brothers would be acting nicely to me still

[tortelvis]

I am adopting my stepdaughter and it costs $88 in court fees, got a legal friend to do the rest for free. My daughter (who is English by birth) will have her name changed AND become a US citizen with a new birth certificate showing place of birth as our local county.

[BobbyR]

I am a Notary and I helped a guy do this here in NY. The court part is not that hard if you can prove you are not doing to evade the law somewhere. The #$%* is that you have to carry with you all kinds of documents for a few years with your old name and your new name. It takes a couple of years for you new name to take in the the places it needs to.

When my Son was born my wife took him to Social Security to register him. She did a name change on her SS Card. Some months after we filed our tax return, they came after us saying my wife had not paid her taxes. Took a week to get their heads and asses wired together. Can you believe they were keying off the name first and the the SS #.