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From: stevev@tekchips.UUCP (Steve Vegdahl)
Newsgroups: net.legal,net.women
Subject: Re: Name Changes
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Date: Sun, 25-Aug-85 17:51:08 EDT
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> Note that the Social Security Administration will not just
> accept your word that your name has changed, for example, by
> getting married.  The SSA will send you a form that you must
> complete and send to them with an original marriage certificate,
> not a copy.  The SSA returns the certificate in about 2 weeks.

When we got married, my wife notified SS that she was changing her
name, and they told her the same thing: they needed the original
marriage license.  Her reaction was, I'M NOT TRUSTING THOSE BOZOS
WITH MY MARRIAGE LICENSE!  (Not to mention the USPS.)  Instead, she
went to the nearest SS office and physically applied for the name
change.
		Steve Vegdahl
		Computer Research Lab.
		Tektronix, Inc.
		Beaverton, Oregon