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> Yes, you can legally change your name but it takes a lot of time and effort and could cause you a lot of grief with your family and professional confusion. I
by stevenjohns 8y ago
> Yes, you can legally change your name but it takes a lot of time and effort and could cause you a lot of grief with your family and professional confusion.
It took me 45 minutes at the Births/Deaths/Marriages office. If I recall, it cost $60.
- pull_my_finger 8y ago> "No way! Why should I change it? He’s the one who sucks." Relevant quote from Office Space
- ciupicri 8y agoIn what country?
- artmageddon 8y agoAnd how much time did you spend updating your new information with the government, your banks, your work, and other services that you interact with?
- jogjayr 8y agoAdd an extra 5 minutes for every official form in the future where you have to answer "Did you previously use a different name?" and provide documentation for it. Add more time if your name change happened in a different country and you need to provide officially translated documentation.
- rspeer 8y agoAnd it took me 3 months, $180, and being ordered to publish a notice in the local newspaper who was really uninterested in following through and then charged me another $170 for it. It's different everywhere and it's usually not easy.
- bschwindHN 8y agoDid you publish your name change in the Diarrhea Times? https://sludgefeed.com/full-first-issue-diarrhea-times-nathan/ https://sludgefeed.com/full-first-issue-diarrhea-times-natha...
- rspeer 8y agookay what And if I had gotten to choose the newspaper, I would have chosen one that is more friendly and more representative of the local community than the glorified blog operated out of another state that I was ordered to use