Can I legally have two different names?
To answer your question: IS IT LEGAL TO HAVE TWO DIFFERENT NAMES? The answer is obvious, NO IT IS NOT LEGAL to have two different names. If the law allow this practice then there would be chaos in the registry beureu of every State or county that the person is in. Example the police is looking for one Michael Stevenson for murder, but since you have Steve Michael as your second name or whatever, you will be the prime suspect for the case. Even if you deny you are not the person they are looking for, you will have the hardest time convincing this cops that it is not you. It is common sense now a days that when a person has two or more names, he is hiding from the law. I donot think you like this impression on you. It is not proper to have two legal names, for the purpose of identity or otherwise. Since we are only one and the same person, yet we have two different names. Doesn't this ring a bell? It is like having two wives, if you are a muslim it is allowed but if not, you got only one wife. A doctor with the name of Dr. Johnston, when the cops ask for your licenses to drive they got the name Mr. Stevenson. Don't you get confuse? The people around you would not necessarily you since you brought this upon them. If the law allow this to you, then millions would also ask for this privileges including notorious con men/women and hoodlums, then the community and the government couldn't tell who's who now. Thanks to your brilliant idea to legalize two names for just one person. Now you are asking WHY it cannot be legalized?
Can a person have two last names without having to hyphenate?
I found the answer myself on Wikipedia. It is not uncommon for women, especially in the U.S. and Canada, to combine their spouse's name with their own birth name (and it is increasingly common for men in those countries to do so, although still a rarity). Sometimes both spouses will adopt the joint surname. A hyphenated name would be ordered (in a phonebook or catalog, for instance) under the first letter of whichever name had been placed first. In some cases, the combined last name is not hyphenated; however both names are considered to be part of the last name (as opposed to either one being a second middle name). In the above example, she might become "Hannah Kelly Watson Errick", where "Watson Errick" is the last name, and "Kelly" is the only middle name. One prominent example of name joining without a hyphen is that of Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton.
What should be done if a person is called by two names, one of which is legally used. What is the procedure to legalize both names?
Your question is not too clear as to what you exactly mean by that if a person is called by two names one of which name is legally used.You have not mentioned as to at what places the second name is used.You want to legalize both names.The best solution to your question is to give an add in two news papers to the effect that you ……………. are known by two names ie. as ……………. and as ……….That in some of your documents your name is mentioned as ………. and in ….. documents your name is mentioned as …..That both of the said names belong to one and the same person and that is you who is …….(son/daughter) of Mr. …….. and Mrs. ……….. resident of ………For this you will have to submit an affidavit to the newspaper publication drafted in accordance with the above guidelines .Get the same attested from a Notary Punlic and submit it for the newspaper publication.You should purchase as many newspapers as you may like to on the day of their publication because thereafter you will not have an easy access to them and the same will be a very important document for your future.This will clarify the matter that you are known by two names.Get another affidavit duly attested by a notary public and keep it with yourself for your personal future use. Affidavits attested by notary public are accepted as concrete proof of the statement embodied in the affidavit and that you have sworn the said statement on oath bestowed on you by the notary public.Disclaimer: above is not a legal advice to constitute a client attorney relationship between us.
I would like to know if i can legally drop a last name from a hyphenated last name. ex: name-name2 i want name?
my son is about to be two years old. i only put the hyphenated part of his last name on the birth certificate because i was scared if i didn't my step dad would do something mean to me so now i would like to remove it since i am no longer around him. i tried to fill out a paper and send it to austin, tx(our capital) but they denied my request. do i need a lawyer? my uncle changed his whole last name so why can't i just drop the hyphenated last name and just keep my sons dads last name?
How can one person have two social security numbers?
totally illegal
I have my husband's two last names. How do we drop one?
Question 1 Can we choose on the baby's birth certificate to only give him one of our last names (even though we have two right now, to avoid having to change the baby's later)? Answer Yes, just fill out the documents with whichever surname you wish your baby to carry. There is no requirement that babies' surnames must mirror their parents' surnames. In fact, nowhere in the US is there a regulation regarding how we name our babies. (That's why we have some of the most creative, to the point of poor judgment, spellings in the world) Question 2 Should my husband wait to become a citizen to have his second surname legally dropped or can we both get the second name dropped at once? Answer You and husband can immediately start using one surname and drop the second one. In some states, the authorities drop the second surname anyway, because of lack of space on documents. If you have changed your maiden name to the double surnames on your social security card, they may not change it until you produce a formal document of name change. Your social security number is still good even if you dropped your second surname, When your husband is naturalized, he can legally change his name but he has to make that declaration before the naturalization ceremony. Usually the legal resident tells the Homeland Security Officer of his intent of name change at the time of the naturalization interview. Be sure that your husband does that before they fill in the naturalization certificate so that he is sworn in as a citizen under the new name. After the ceremony, both of you can take his citizenship certificate and your marriage certificate to the social security office to change your names at the same time in the social security system and be issued new cards. BTW, I do not know when your husband became a legal resident, but he is eligible to file for citizenship 3 months before his 3rd anniversary of attaining legal residency if you are an American citizen. It's an exception for spouses of US citizens. Other legal residents have to wait 5 years. You may be able to change your names legally through the naturalization process before the baby is born if you and he have been married 3 years or more. m\\
What if your full legal name isn't on your divorce papers, only the 1st & last name, not middle or suffix? Still legal?
Do you believe the legal world really operates on such gotcha moments? That one could go through an entire divorce proceeding, have a decree issued by a judge and have it invalid because a middle name was not included? That might happen in an episode of Gilligans Island or a really bad movie but it doesn't happen in real life. The person getting divorced subjected themselves to the personal jurisdiction of the court and had their legal issue resolved. They can call themselves Bozo the clown and it is still the person who has been divorced. The name confusion may cause other issues with creditors or even fraud but by itself it is not going to invalidate a divorce decree.
Is it legal to give your child a different last name?
A2AYou can pretty much give your baby any random surname you want, in the U.S..In certain jurisdictions, in paternity cases, however, the father can petition to have the name changed on the birth certificate to his last name. There are very few jurisdictions where this is the case, but Tennessee is one of them.Barring court petitions to the contrary, you can pretty much give them anything that doesn’t offend local ordinance. California, for example, prohibits:a name that could affect the rights of another person, such as a celebritya curse worda racial sluran obscene or offensive wordsomething deliberately confusing, such as containing punctuation or a number — so no “Robert’); DROP TABLE Students—”xkcd: Exploits of a Mom…but those names may be fine in another state, and if you later move to California… well, they can’t really force your kid to change their name.
Multiple nationality: Can the legal (passport) name be different, in different passports/nationalities of a person with dual citizenship?
To answer the current version of the question, yes, someone with multiple citizenships could very well have different spellings of his/her name in each passport. This happens most often when a non-English (26 letters) character is used, and especially when name is originally spell in a non-Latin script (e.g. Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Chinese, etc.)So, first of all, someone with multiple passports should always present the appropriate passport to immigration/passport control when entering or leaving one of his/her "home" countries. If traveling to a third country, use same passport to enter and exit that country.Now, you also present your passport at the ticket counter as identification and evidence that you can travel to the country your are going to. In this case, present the passport with the same name/spelling as the ticket.The only problem I see is that if—on the inbound or outbound leg of your journey—you use a passport with the matching name, but it requires a visa at the other end. In this case the airline may not let you board. You will then have to present your other passport, and explain that you are a dual citizen, but with a different name. The ticket agent may then need to call the supervisor, who will then have to call someone else... So, carefully consider which name you purchase the ticket under.