Exciting! I've got an appointment to go get fingerprinted tomorrow morning for the background check in preparation for my legal name change. Hooray! Can't wait to make this official
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If I were taking Ian's last name, then I wouldn't have to do much except flash my marriage certificate.
When you change your name otherwise, however, you have to go through the courts. Step 1 is having the state run a criminal background check on you to make sure the name change is not for criminal purposes -- the fingerprints are part of that.
I presume this is a similar process in every state.
Not only have I never been able to convince Charles Schwab & Co. that I'm married (it's only been almost eleven years, and C. is a co-signer on the account), they sent regular account statements to my dad without telling me about it for over ten years because I was a minor when the account was originally opened.
*sigh* There's a reason I took my business elsewhere, there really is.
They used to be good, but in the last five or six years their customer service has gotten so bad and the fees so high that I've shifted my business to Vanguard.
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When you change your name otherwise, however, you have to go through the courts. Step 1 is having the state run a criminal background check on you to make sure the name change is not for criminal purposes -- the fingerprints are part of that.
I presume this is a similar process in every state.
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*sigh* There's a reason I took my business elsewhere, there really is.
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