Changing name by de poll

[Hartey40]

I’m thinking of changing my name to my partner’s surname, I’m divorced and I don’t want the name anymore, nor do I want to go back to my maiden name, as it’s a very unusual name and my father wasn’t a nice man, so don’t want the association. I am engaged to my partner but no immediate plans to marry yet, so wouldn’t be that strange to do this. Anyone else done this?

There is more to him than that, otherwise I wouldn’t be with him 😊

No need to pay.

https://freedeedpoll.org.uk/

You have a good memory 🤣🤣

Not necessarily. Some MNers like to use the advanced search to see what you’ve posted before

I have changed mine via deed poll, I used a service, me and DP (together for 17 years) never plan on getting married (well we do it just for tax reasons, it’s on our todo list) and I wanted the same surname as my son before he started secondary.

I found me having a different surname to him in primary school brought out some snobbery and prejudice from teachers and parents in our very middle class area. Which makes me laugh as I am very much the bread winner of our home and if we would of gotten married traditionally, I would of kept my old surname anyway, as I believe it’s totally sexist for the woman to change theirs.

However I have finally given in to societal pressure to benefit our son, when he is 18 I will probably go back to my quite lovely and very rare surname.

Oh and don’t change your to your DPd without speaking to him, because you will come across batshit

I thought couverture was something to do with very good chocolate.

I used Deed Poll to change my name back to my maiden name whilst waiting for divorce (which seemed to take forever) to come through.

No need to pay anything. Use the free deed poll link above, literally some legal wording saying you renounce name x and will now on only be known by name y. Get it witnessed, job done. I printed mine out on some cream heavyweight paper to give it more gravitas.

Worst part was when companies wouldn't accept it over email, stamps are damn expensive.

I would never do that 🤣🤣 he wants me to change it too. He proposed to me

Wow really haven’t got the time for that, but then I don’t think that deeply 🤣

I did exactly that - decided I'd rather live with my wonderful late father's surname than that of the a-hole who I was divorcing, even though it means my surname is different from my kids, they understood completely!