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I Don't Like the Name "Randy" |
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What Were My Parents Thinking?! |
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The Meaning of "Randy" |
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Why "Dave"?? |
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The Name-change Process |
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"Randy the Rooster" |
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Name changes are easy, particularly so for women and children when there is a marriage certificate or divorce decree that somehow relates to the change in name. Name changes are more difficult when they don't correspond to any life event. Most institutions and government agencies will accept almost any evidence to support a change in name.
A judge's signature isn't strictly necessary to use a different name except for a few situations. My attorney and accountant advised me to get a judge to sign a court order approving my name change for those few occasions when it might make a difference. As one example, a real estate title insurer might protest if my current identification didn't match the name on the title. Oregon, like many states, defines a formal court process for making a name change. Even without a court order, I was able to change my name on bank accounts, credit cards, passport, voter registration card, at the IRS, SSA, FCC, FAA, and a bunch of other acronyms.
See Oregon Revised Statutes, chapters 33.410 - 33.440.
