Changing Name

[em111111]

I want to change my name from my married name to my maiden name (divorced in 1999). Is there anything legally I have to do?

[hectic]

You have to go to your local registry office and change it thorugh them as a deed

[sallie-dave]

you have to go thought your solicotor

[Maud]

You change your name by Deed Poll (more correctly Deed of Change of Name)and if you click here http://www.ukdps.co.uk/ it tells you all about it.

[bernardo]

Actually you don't even need to do that. As long as you use a name consistently and tell everybody that you have changed it, you can use any name you want, and that will become your legal name through usage. Deed poll is just an extra layer of certainty.

[nicola_red]

You can go to deedpollsonline.co.uk and do it all online. Costs less than �50 as well! That's what i did.

[secretspirit]

I think you can do it on www.confetti.co.uk and it costs about �30

[shelthebabe]

bernado is right, just let everyone know, but for legal things like the bank and driving licence etc you send a copy of your birth certificate and your divorce with a covering letter telling them that you are reverting back to your maiden name.

[Frances1]

As you are reverting back to your own name i.e. maiden name, you do not have to take any legal steps whatsoever. I reverted back to mine as soon as I separated from my husband. My lawyer told me that as this was my name originally i could start using it immediately. It is only if you are changing it to something completely different that you have to be known by that name for a certain time.