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From: see1@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (E.K. Seebacher)
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Subject: Re: Name Changes
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Date: Sun, 1-Sep-85 20:59:26 EDT
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>> I changed my name "by common usage" about ten years ago. ...
>> 
>> Moira (don't you wonder what it was before?) Mallison
>
>I changed my name by the legal route, and it involved paying absolutely NO $
>to a court. I filed my intent with the court, which then gave me a list of
>guidelines and suggested people to tell. ...
>       - I didn't even have to pay court costs, because the judge just
>signed the decree in his chambers. The only requirement was a want-ad running
>once/week for three consecutive weeks stating the intention. 
>                              ...  I imagine the whole affair wound up
>costing me 15 bucks for the legal forms, want ad and photocopies.
>
> Gary Benson 

Gasp.  Choke.  I paid this county almost $190 when I changed my name last
year, and I made damn sure that several sources said it was REQUIRED first
(you know how long it takes to save that much as an undergrad on financial
aid?).  Fifty bucks of that went for the want ads, which I believe had to
run for six weeks, and which they explained must be run in something called
_the_Law_Bulletin_.  The rest was for court costs, and I had the judge sign
the decree in his chambers, too.  Is this just typical Chicago graft???!
Some of the sources I checked with were consumer-legal-help type groups.

As I told Moira in my reply to her original posting, though, I haven't re-
gretted going the legal route (although I'm still sitting here fuming over
the cost), just because I needed those documents in hand when preparing for
battle with:

  - the GSL people;
  - the University of Chicago (they were the worst, and it wasn't even
       my last name that got changed!);
  - the Illinois State Scholarship Commission;
  - the Department of Motor Vehicles (which wants an ORIGINAL birth
       certificate -- that one took several months to obtain);
  - the SSA.

That's another thing.  The county clerk advised me to get three or four
"originals" of the decree, so I could send them off to various agencies
(at two dollars apiece, naturally).  Every place I mailed a decree to 
sent it back safely.  I guess I was just lucky.

(Anyone want to comment on Cook County "requirements"?  I've always been
 addicted to local politics, but the thought of somebody's brother having
 a night out on me .... grrrrrrrrrrrr....)



-- 
 Ellen Keyne Seebacher             
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