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Changing Name By Deed Poll questions (merged)

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  • peardrops_2
    peardrops_2 Posts: 223 Forumite
    I changed my name by Stuatory Declaration 4 years before I married. The document I had stamped in family court was sufficient and did not need a deed poll document.
  • Saw the post on deed poll, hope no one minds me starting another topic on here to get the best advice I can for my son.

    I met my second husband when son was 11, and from the moment we married my son wanted to be known by my new surname. His biological father did a runner when he was 18months, and his Dad is my husband, so he truly considers himself a 'Blogg's.... if you get my drift

    He is now seventeen, his passport is in his new surname, his NI number, and doctors records, all educational certificates etc. His old surname is a distant memory, but is still there on his birth certificate.

    I am just wondering what would happen if he needed to produce his birth certificate for any reason, for a job for example, and they would wonder if he is the same person.

    Also if and when he gets married, would his new name be his legal name for marriage purposes, even though it has not been legally changed on his birth cert?

    What is the best thing to do legally? His father was not contactable to sign and agree to his name change which is why we left it until he is 18.

    Does he just have to apply for a change of name on his birthcert?
  • Savvy_Sue
    Savvy_Sue Posts: 47,477 Forumite
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    Just to say that the birth certificate shouldn't be an issue for marriage. I know someone whose mother told him THE NIGHT BEFORE HE WAS DUE TO MARRY :eek: that his name wasn't really Bloggs, it was Brown, so he wouldn't be able to marry because his birth certificate wasn't in the name he was planning to marry in.

    Needless to say, the bride to be was a little distressed by this so they went off to see the vicar, who assured them that this was NOT a problem, he could marry as a Bloggs because his name was Bloggs because that was the name he was known by.

    I'm also trying to think whether he would EVER have to produce his birth certificate, and I can't think why he would. We do CRB checks at work, and although it's one of the possible documents you can use it's by no means essential. Not to mention the fact that enough of us lose our birth certificates over the years ... It's true that if the name was different I wouldn't accept it as a CRB identity proving document unless there was something to link the old name with the new one, but I'm mean like that. :rotfl:

    If he DID have to produce it, then I would do a letter alongside it saying "This is my birth certificate, when I was 11 my mother remarried and from that day forward I have been known as Joe Bloggs." I believe you can get such a letter witnessed by a solicitor if that would give him peace of mind - there have been threads on this in the past.
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  • ariba10
    ariba10 Posts: 5,432 Forumite
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    I do not know about your son with him only being 17 years of age but an adult only needs to say that they wish to be known as ##### and from that time on that is their name. (As long as it is not done for any illegal or fraudulent purpose)

    There is no need for legal involvement.
    I used to be indecisive but now I am not sure.
  • Thanks.

    In hysteric here, cos his old name was indeed....Brown..but the new name is not Bloggs!!

    I just remembered there was all sorts of backwards jumps and paraphanalia involved in submitting birth certs etc when I got married...just to make sure you are who you are, and havn't put in someone elses so you can commit bigamy!

    Probably watched too much Judge Judy.
  • Savvy_Sue wrote: »
    ... It's true that if the name was different I wouldn't accept it as a CRB identity proving document unless there was something to link the old name with the new one, but I'm mean like that. :rotfl:
    .

    There is no problem in using a birth certificate with a different to the known name for purpose of a CRB check.

    On the form you have to declare all prior names, this would link the person to the name on the birth certificate.

    I have never found it to be an issue.
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  • Savvy_Sue
    Savvy_Sue Posts: 47,477 Forumite
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    There is no problem in using a birth certificate with a different to the known name for purpose of a CRB check.

    On the form you have to declare all prior names, this would link the person to the name on the birth certificate.

    I have never found it to be an issue.
    That's true, I had forgotten that bit ... :o

    I have had people try to give me documents showing an entirely different address to the one they've put on their CRB form, because they haven't changed their driving licence or utility bills because they're only renting in this area and having post forwarded from a permanent address. :confused: It says at least one document has to confirm your address, how can documents from a different address confirm the one you've used on this form?
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  • Bean_Counter
    Bean_Counter Posts: 1,496 Forumite
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    The fact that he has a passport in his new surname, and presumably had to submit his birth certificate at that point, means that it can't have been a problem.

    I would have thought that a passport would supersede a birth certificate anyway, if it ever came to a having to produce documentation time.
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  • blinkingbank!
    blinkingbank! Posts: 357 Forumite
    I have changed my last name only by informing people i wish to be known as... the only people who wont change it without proof is my bank.
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  • barjam_2
    barjam_2 Posts: 1,667 Forumite
    my husbands name is different to his birth certificate but when applying for a passport (i know your son has a passport) he was advised to go to the magistrates court to apply for a statutory declaration..... that was also a legal paper to say that he is known to the name he is now rather than birth cert (mother remarried) it cost approx £8.... much cheaper than a solicitor:T
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