help with surname

Hannah_10

clairelouise2222 wrote: »

I don't need to change anything over except my national insurance coz I have a bank account & bills & I.d in proper surname so was hoping I wouldent need to put a previous surname on forms etc, I don't want to be associated with my step dads surname, oh & I'd need to change surname on electrol list but don't no how to do it, does your new name & previous name link to one coz I have 2 credit reports & one of them has 2ccjs on & I don't want them on my birth farthers surname that I want to use, I live in England, thanks for everyones replys

Write to the national insurance department or the tax office nearest you. You can find that out by googling inland revenue and your county.

You do need to put the old one down on forms, I'm sorry, I know it's cringe-makingly foul, but you do. Otherwise you could be accused of fraud and that's a lot of cr*p to end up lumped with if you don't deserve it.

You do a letter to the Electoral Registration Officer at your district council, thier head office will be easily googlable too. Make sure you mention that you are changing it as of *date*, that you intend to use no other name and it's not for fraudulent reasons.

Yes your old name and new name are linked yes. There is no legal way to avoid that CCJ until it falls off the file six years after it's paid back. There are illegal ways, they're known collectively as fraud and punished so heavily you'll wish you still had the CCJ's instead.

Having your old name linked in a place you wont have to look at it anyway is a tiny little technicality compared to wearing the name you hate for the rest of your life.

As I changed mine so long ago now (16 years ago- :eek: how time flies) I don't bother putting it on anything anymore. Any organisation with records on me spanning back far enough to know I was once called *verybadname* has been told about it looooong before now! So about 6 years ago I just stopped bothering to write it down, sorta "if you don't already know, you don't need to know".

Look at it this way, if you don't change it it's going to hang over you forever. If you do change it, well in years to come it'll have errased itself from your world and you can forget it ever happened (till someone writes a forum post wanting to know how it's done of course :cool:)

rosiey

I am hoping that someone out there might be able to help me.When i was 3yrs old my mother changed my name to my stepdad's, which i have used for the last 35years. Now i want to get a passport, but my birth certificate shows a different name,
As my name change was not done legally, how do i go about this?

Thanks in advance

Nara

If your name change was not legal, then wouldn't your legal name still be your original name anyways?

I'm not very clued up about this, but i changed my name by deed poll (cheaper then getting married ) and it was easy and cheap.

vitamin_joe

Rosiey;- I changed my surname about 8 years ago. There's a document you can print off the internet- it basically says "I [former name] entirely relinquish the use of my former name and now wish to be known as [new name]." I took this along to a solicitors, with my birth certificate and another form of ID, and they co-sign the document for you. It took about 5 minutes and cost me £5- it's a lot cheaper than a deed poll, and it is legal. All my documents, bank account and so on are now in my new name.

You then just send this document along with your passport application. I did this a few weeks ago when renewing my passport, as my previous passport was in my former name. It all worked fine.

Also, a good tip is to get it laminated- it's amazing how quickly a sheet of A4 starts to fall apart!

rosiey

hi there,

Thanks for the good news, could you let me know what site you downloaded the form from.

thanks again:j

vitamin_joe

Hi, there's a sample document on this page here-

http://www.t-vox.org/index.php?title=UK_Statutory_Declaration

you just need to print it out (and change the names and address obviously )