Legal Name change

Joe :
Funny you mention this because my birth certificate name is different also. Off by one letter and I have no idea why. My whole life I used an "a" instead of a "e". The e had an accent above it even. This mystery will go unsolved. 😏

I didn't find out until I was 16 that I had been spelling my name different than the way it was spelled on my birth certificate.On the outside of the birth certificate envelope, in my mother's handwriting, was my first name with one L and 2 Ss, and my middle name with two Ns. Upon examining the birth certificate inside, I found the nurse had printed my first name with 2 Ls & 1 S, & my middle name had only 1 N. When my mother saw it, she immediately made arrangements for me to miss school the next day to go to the courthouse to have the spelling of my name changed to the way she had originally written it. She paid $2.

When I got married I dropped my given middle name and put my maiden name as my legal middle name. At the time (maybe it still is this way) all you had to do was put your maiden name on your marriage certificate along with your husbands name and it becomes official. My birth certificate and my social security card still carry my old middle name but all of my other legal forms and cards carry my maiden name as my middle. My sisters did the same thing when they married. It was simple and I have never encountered any issues.

rocklady2024 : Did he just change his first name or his first and last name? Did he do it because he wanted to identify as nonbinary gender wise ? I have a friend whose former daughter became her son and legally changed their first name from Leigh to Lee and their middle name from Anne to Andrew. Their last name wasn't changed. Since their new first name is pronounced the same(with just a different spelling) and their initials remained the same it helped a lot -people didn't have to be informed of the name change, other than legal documents.

teatime: I hav eno idea I learned from my sisiter in law she only said the first name he is using she didn't know about the rest of his name . I sure as heck don't feel guilty that I did something wrong . His wife changed her name also what a mess

rocklady2024 :
If he is no longer in your life does this bother you?

mutton : What happened?

Donnawisdom: breaks my heart everyday and I could cry all the time he was the one I was close with . Yes it bothers me so bad but he doesn't want to be in our lives and made that clear and has blocked us on everything and now we don't kkow his name for real . So yes heart broken

SandyKnee : Cut pad from fingertip to first bend down to the bone. Splayed right open.
Now when I get finger prints I have to show them first or they keep wanting to redo, lol.

mutton : Wow, sounds awful. And painful! Do you still have feeling in that finger? Sorry that happened to you, friend!

SandyKnee : It came back, but mostly tingly...

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BlackDiamond :
So did you change it to Black Diamond? lol. Would be a cool name.

BlackDiamond :
Welcome to your new name! Usually worth the hassle.
What's in a name? Why everything!❤️