Quite a few name changes happen every year. The majority of name changes happen because of a marriage or divorce. Dependent upon the conditions, the courts may be taking part in the process.

When a womanweds and wants to take on her husband’s last name, following the wedding, she will want to do the following to legally change her name:
1. Take the marriage certificate to the Department of Motor Vehicles and acquire a duplicate license in her new name.
2. Bring the marriage certificate to the neighborhood Social Security Office and ask for an amended Social Security Card.
3. Go to her bank to have her name changed on all of her accounts. She will need to order new checks and a new bankcard.
4. Get in touch with any company that she has an account with to change her name on the account.
5. Contact her credit card companies to have her name changed on the account and new cards granted with her new name.
6. Renew her information with any utility companies that she has accounts with.
7. If the marriage also causes an address change, the above entities will also need correct her mailing address as well.

What if I Don’t Change my Name Right Away?
There are times when a woman initially decides not to take her husband’s name, but later changes her choice. In those cases, she will most likely need to handle the name change through the courts. This fairly easy process involves filling out the proper forms showing her current name, new name, and reason for the name change. The courts usually grant these name changes without question. There will be a filing fee with the courts and some courts require that you publish in the newspaper your intent to change your name before they will give you the name change.

Can I Change My Name After a Divorce?
Upon divorcing, quite a few women like to keep their maiden names or go back to a former married name if she had kids from a previous marriage. There are a couple of techniques to deal with this. The best and most affordable is to have the name change is to have the name change included into the divorce decree. Once the divorce is given, the recently divorced woman needs to have a certified copy of the divorce decree and inform the same entities as when she married and took her husband’s last name.

Mary Garcia is a representative of Arizona Legal Briefcase, a legal document preparation company in AZ. She and her company can help businesses register new businesses in Arizona, individuals file AZ quit claim deeds, and more.

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