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From: moiram@tektronix.UUCP (Moira Mallison )
Newsgroups: net.legal,net.women
Subject: Re: Name Changes
Message-ID: <5648@tektronix.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Aug-85 15:15:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: tektroni.5648
Posted: Mon Aug 26 15:15:23 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 28-Aug-85 20:58:38 EDT
References: <139@rruxa.UUCP> <10060@ucbvax.ARPA> <1515@peora.UUCP>
Reply-To: moiram@tektronix.UUCP (Moira Mallison )
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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Summary: 

In article <1515@peora.UUCP> bd@peora.UUCP (Bernie Dougan) writes:
>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.

I changed my name "by common usage" about ten years ago.  Meaning
that I have no official document stating that I paid $ to a court
to do it; I simply starting using "Moira Mallison" exclusively.
I had no particular problems with SSA.  I think all that was required
was a notarized document that I didn't intend fraud, and that I 
was going to use the new name exclusively.   

Moira (don't you wonder what it was before?) Mallison
tektronix!moiram