Need some quick advice - wrong name on cheque

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My husband and I both double barrelled when we got married (I know, I know, but my surname is a natural suffix, it works!) but some of his family forget he did his.
He's been sent a cheque in his maiden (?) name, will the bank still accept this? Its essentially his married name without mine tacked on. So instead of Mr hisname-myname it is just Mr hisname.
Thanks!

I would just go and present the cheques and see what happens. I’ve had a similar experience and there was no problem.

Can’t the person who sent it send another one and cancel the one you have?

I used to take cheque and marriage certificate to bank.

Fin unfortunately the window for getting it too us is too small. There isn't time to post it again in time for what we need it for.

Thanks, I'll take the marriage cert with us.

I received a cheque in my maiden name recently; I took the cheque and my marriage certificate to the bank and had no problem in paying it in.

After I got married, my bank said they would accept a cheque in any name the account had previously been registered in, both maiden and married names (I keep my old name for work).

Take marriage cert and no problems at all.

Honestly. If the cheque is addressed to Mr Smith and your DH is Mr Smith-Jones and there is space on the cheque, I'd find a similar coloured pen and add the rest of his name in the payee box on the cheque.

I've heard that they don't really look that closely at cheques below quite a lot of thousands of pounds anyway. DP got a cheque for refund of his car tax when he sold his car and they spelt both his first and last name wrong - think Jon Stevenson instead of John Stephenson and he paid it in anyway and it cleared as normal.

If you can do the new photo cheque clearing thing, an actual human being might not even look at it anyway.

Ask the cheque sender to do a bank transfer instead. Problem solved.

Ask the cheque sender to do a bank transfer instead. Problem solved. The reason for the cheque is probably because the sender can't do a bank transfer.

I often have this problem because I am not known by my actual first name. I had one rejected recently that I had tried to put in electronically using the photo thing in the app, but I just put it in the paying in machine in the bank and it was fine.