Name change after marriage

[missy-2902]

I will need to change my legal name after marriage on my account, does anybody know what supporting documents I will need to upload to Ebay? Thank you.

[legalbeagle52]

@fern*wood 

Funny I didn't know if anyone would understand what I meant by always spelling it out ... but you get it  🙂 

 I don't even bother saying it anymore.   I just spell it first.   Luckily my first name is easy.   Back then we were all about "women's lib" ... (now there's a term we don't hear anymore) and Gloria Steinem (who did eventually get married) ... so it did seem odd to take the man's name but we still did it.  

[chariot_badges]

... and all of that is worth it?

Whatever.

To each his/her own.

I would have better things to do with the next two weeks ...

[chariot_badges]

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@reallynicestamps wrote:

BTW- best wishes for your new life and remember, in seven years all the small appliances you got as wedding presents will break down.

This is not the fault of your spouse.

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Is that Confucius?

[reallynicestamps]

@legalbeagle52 

@missy-2902 

FWIW - I'll be 78 soon and I believe that chapeau-noir is my junior but not by very much.
So not changing names on marriage has been possible for over half a century.

My mum got a shock when her first Old Age Pension cheque arrived from the UK. Partly because she didn't expect one - we emigrated in 1952 and she had been a homemaker since marrying in 1936- and partly because it was in her maiden name.
Scotland does not legally recognize that women's names might change on marriage.

[simply-the-best-for-you]

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@legalbeagle52 wrote:

@simply-the-best-for-you 

I know what you mean ... you would think it would depend on what circle you ran with even back then ... but almost all of us got married right after college & most were working professionals and we took our husband's names   It just wasn't heard of (to any of us) to keep your own name or I'm sure I would have done it.

I'll just say this about the name ... people think it's either Chinese or French and it isn't either one. 

For as many times as I asked my husband where it came from ... he didn't know the origin either.  (He knew where his relatives came from, but the name didn't match up).  When I got married, his family was the only family in the country with that last name.   Of course the family has since expanded so there are many more of us these days.

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@legalbeagle52 Interesting on both counts!  I'm sure there's a geographic element too, but it's fascinating that you had the opposite experience.  Mine was late 80's.   As for your DH's name, my guess was Chinese or Vietnamese, so I guess no dice on that either.  All my life I thought my name was from 1 nationality, the one I was born in & just recently I learned that there's a region in a completely different country that is a variation of my name.   I haven't had anytime yet o try & figure that out, but names can sure be weird & perplexing sometimes 😀

[simply-the-best-for-you]

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@fern*wood wrote:

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@legalbeagle52 wrote:

... We never say our name, we always spell it out when asked our name somewhere and it's only 4 letters. 

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That's funny because I do the same thing.  My last name is four letters too and I almost always say it followed by spelling it out.  I've done that so many times it sounds weird to just say my name.  I got married in '79 and no one kept their maiden name, but I didn't want to give up my maiden name even back then, so I made it my middle name.  I'll probably never be allowed to vote again if I have to fix all of that.

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@fern*wood You don't have to "fix" anything.  You'll just have to provide documentation, I believe. 

[chapeau-noir]

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@reallynicestamps wrote:

@legalbeagle52 

@missy-2902 

FWIW - I'll be 78 soon and I believe that chapeau-noir is my junior but not by very much.
So not changing names on marriage has been possible for over half a century.

My mum got a shock when her first Old Age Pension cheque arrived from the UK. Partly because she didn't expect one - we emigrated in 1952 and she had been a homemaker since marrying in 1936- and partly because it was in her maiden name.
Scotland does not legally recognize that women's names might change on marriage.

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I'm seven years younger, but I don't recall any of my women friends changing their name after marriage. It was usual that they did in the red neck small town I lived in as a teen, though, but it was also expected that women would marry right out of high school so the culture was quite different - the guys would marry younger, too, early 20s in their case. That's just the way it was.  I was one of the few who left - I graduated when I was 17 and can't say I ever thought about marriage - it was what other people did.

[short_circuit.lineman61]

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@simply-the-best-for-you wrote:

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   The SAVE Act will put a stop to that though, as it's clear attempt to disenfranchise female voters.  

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I just knew that someone would use this thread as a opportunity to promote a political agenda.

[simply-the-best-for-you]

@short_circuit.lineman61  As I already posted, I am not promoting any politcal agenda.  This is a real act, that will really affect people, mainly women on BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE.  I already posted that.  Also there are numerous people bringing it up in this thread, again, b/c it's a imminent reality that we will all have to deal with, regardless of your political persuasion & it is an important consideration for this particular OP, who has never come back anyway!