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From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
Newsgroups: net.legal,net.women
Subject: Re: Name Changes
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Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 18:55:02 EDT
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In article <10060@ucbvax.ARPA> spp@ucbvax.ARPA (Stephen P Pope) writes:
>
>    My wife changed her name when we got married.  After filing
>a tax return under her new name, the IRS sent her a letter 
>advising her to tell Social Security about her new name.  Other
>than that, no action is required, at least in California.

In California, it's legal to use *any* name you choose, so long as
it's not to defraud anyone.  This is *not* true in all states. 
The Feds, however, don't accept anything but a birth certificate,
court order, or marriage certificate when verifying names for
passport applications.  I don't know when else they're that picky.

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