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Changing name
Those of you who changed your name after marriage, how long did it take you to get all your stuff changed over?
I just changed my name on my savings account a week ago, and I still have credit cards in my maiden name. I've been married a year and a half! It just seems like such a hassle. And just when I think I've changed everything, I get something else in the mail with my maiden name on it.
Re: Changing name
I'm actually not entirely sure I have everything changed, and it's been 5.5 years. My frequent flier programs were ones I forgot about for a long time, and I'm going to get a new library card sometime in the next week while I'm home visiting. If I could find my old one, it would still be under my maiden name.
Don't feel bad or worry about it as long as you've gotten the most important things and official documents taken care of. I figure in another 5 years at the latest I'll have taken care of everything, and anything that I haven't used in 10 years is probably not worth changing my name on anyway!
I think it's pretty normal for it to take a bit of time. I didn't do it myself, so I'm not going off experience though.
Why the hurry to change your name on things if you guys are still working through a lot of issues, though? I'd be more inclined to threaten to start changing things back...
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I can't remember how long it took me to change everything overall (been married 9 years), but what I did do was keep my maiden name as part of my legal name so that there weren't any problems if an account or something with my maiden name came up. So, legally, I have four names- FN MN Maiden Name Husband's Last name.
This was especially important for my passport since one of the countries I visit regularly does NOT recognize name changes due to marriage and will only issue my visa in my maiden name. Applying for a whole new visa with a whole new name as if I'd never been there before would create a lot of problems.
Probably about a year. I did the personal stuff first (ssn, passport, credit cards, bank accounts)-- fairly quickly-- I'd say w/in 2mos. But I never got around to changing it professional w/ the bar or w/ work. When I moved here (abt 10mos after we got married), since all my personal stuff was in my married name, I just started out that way at work here. It's kind of weird to think that people that know me here don't ever think of me as anything other than Married Name.
I'm still Maiden Name with the bar and on Facebook. The bar b/c I'm too cheap to pay to change it (and, surprisingly, I don't have to change it... trust me, I checked and have the reply letter b/c I still question it). FB b/c I'm lazy.
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Just curious - is this true? I thought when you changed your name after marriage that that is a legal and binding name change (unless you change it back legally), meaning that you are no longer FN MaidenName and can't use it for official documents. That's just an assumption on my part, I guess.
I *think* that it's different in the US than it is in Canada and France (the countries that involve me). We don't legally change our name, but just assume our married name.
For me; in Canada I only have my maiden name on my documents, banks and passport and here in France I use both hyphenated or just my maiden name.
Interesting. I'm pretty sure in the US and Germany (the countries that involve me) it is a legal name change. I actually changed mine in Germany, not the US, but as far as I've been told, it's still legally binding in the US.