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CalifChick -> RE: Adding a name, legally (2/16/2008 10:58:09 PM)
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I legally changed my name in California years ago using the "just use it" method. I wouldn't recommend it. At the time, I started by changing my drivers license and then my social security records using my new drivers license. Due to Homeland Security, it isn't that easy anymore. And your birth certificate will never match. Even if you don't have to, I'd recommend a simple court hearing.
Years later I found out that the social security office screwed up the records (the IRS informed me that my name on my tax return didn't match SS records). Social Security had sent me a new card with my new name, but they never changed their records. I then had to go to them and prove not who I was, but who I used to be, using things that were not easily obtained by someone who was not me (their words). I used some elementary school report cards that were in a scrapbook that my mom had saved, and my first communion certificate.
Cali
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