No surname issue while buying a property

lincroft1710

Many of the Sikh community have no family name as such, males have their last name "Singh", females "Kaur".

theartfullodger

Surely nothing stopping you changing your name by deed poll to have a 1st & surname???  Would likely make life much easier.. 

Entirely up to lender, solicitor, land registry etc etc what their rules & regulations are as long as they are not unlawfully discriminating.... (discrimination can be legal).

ThorOdinson

Can your solicitor just enter (none) or something?

Sapindus

Is your name long enough that you could split it into the two boxes?

Jeff_Dee

In a university student database I'm familiar with, this is quite a common occurrence for some overseas students. As the surname field is mandatory the workaround is to enter a period or a hyphen in that field.

ETA - It does of course depend whether the system you're using will accept a non-alpha character in that field.

Emily_Joy

If this is internal system used by solicitors, why don't they enter "Not Applicable" in the corresponding field(s)?

bobster2

When dealing with HMRC online services someone in this thread found that while the online forms will not accept a blank surname field, they will accept a blank first name box.

https://community.hmrc.gov.uk/customerforums/sa/6cc488b1-dca0-ee11-a81c-002248c69e85

Jemma01

bobster2 said:

When dealing with HMRC online services someone in this thread found that while the online forms will not accept a blank surname field, they will accept a blank first name box.

https://community.hmrc.gov.uk/customerforums/sa/6cc488b1-dca0-ee11-a81c-002248c69e85

It is intentionally left like that because verifying first names proved to be difficult as many people go around with short first names (Elizabeth going for Liz!), all it did was generate more support calls HMRC can't afford. Even worse some people would put their titles there fgs.

user1977

Emily_Joy said:

If this is internal system used by solicitors, why don't they enter "Not Applicable" in the corresponding field(s)?

We're talking about the Land Registry and HMRC, neither of which are internal solicitor systems (though typically used by them).

And I suspect the risk of doing as you suggest is that it ends up in the name of Zsreech Notapplicable.

EssexHebridean

Yep, U77 has nailed it - so your SDLT form will throw up the name exactly like that, which then means if you try to get anything else through at registration the LR will raise a requisition because your SDLT5 doesn't match what is on the TR1 and any charge.