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Changing Your Last Name After Marriage

March 13, 2009




wedding-at-the-beachAlthough it is not the standard practice with every woman, there are a lot of women who change their last name and replace it with their husband’s last name, after their wedding. And in case, you’re planning to get your last name changed, then you must learn about the formalities and the procedures that you need to follow to change your last name officially.

Every state has its own requirements and regulations regarding change of name after marriage, but still most of the steps to be followed are quite similar. The process becomes much easier if you use one of the name change kits that are now freely available on the internet. But anyways, if you want to follow the normal course, here’s how you need to go about changing your name from your maiden name to your new married name.

1. If you’re a working woman, you must intimate your employer about the upcoming wedding, so that the employer can arrange for all the paperwork well in time.

2. After your wedding, obtain a few extra copies of your marriage certificate, as your financial agencies may ask for certified copies of the certificate to make the necessary changes.

3. You will have to collect the relevant forms from the office of social security administration, and after filling them up you need to deposit them back along with copies of the required certificates. This is very important, because your name on your driving license and your passport can be changed only when your name has been changed at the social security administration office.

4. Get in touch with all the relevant financial agencies, such as your Credit Card Company, Insurance Company, Bankers and all other relevant agencies to have your name changed in their records as well. And lastly, as we mentioned earlier, the process of getting your name changed becomes very simple when you use one of the online name change kits, so do think about this alternative.

These services will put forward certain forms into which you need to feed in the required information, and the system will generate the desired letters. There will be detailed instructions on what all enclosures need to be sent along with each of these letters, along with the address to which you need to dispatch these letters.


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One Response to “Changing Your Last Name After Marriage”

  1. Barbara on May 21st, 2009 11:34 am

    Thank you so much for posting this. I am researching this topic and this is very helpful and informative.

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