Is anyone a solicitor that can advise me re money laundering forms?? I might be screwed in regards to my house sale!

[mrsrabbitworkaholic]

Hi, I'm in the process of selling my house and am just filling out all the forms to send to our solicitor.

They are asking for the two forms of ID that is required from myself and my DH but I have a massive issue with this.

My passport, driving licence, bank account and credit card are all in my maiden name. My mortgage (and so the ID they are looking for) is in my married name.

I have a marriage certificate but it is in spanish... and the passport office etc wouldn't accept it to name change so I ended up just keeping my maiden name for everything else.

All utilities are in DH's name.

What on earth am I going to do? Or can I send the required documentation in my maiden name along with a spanish certificate?

Please help!

You need something to say "also known as " ask solicitor it should not be a problem

I had this as DH and I bought a house in the moment before we were married and never changed the mortgage. I sent my marriage certificate with everything else to prove that I was the person I had been. I would think that even in spanish they would be able to get the gist that it is a marriage certificate.

I would have thought your Spanish certificate is still a legal document.

But probably best just to ask the question of the solicitor.

You need a translator to make an english copy of the certificate and get a solicitor to notarise the copy (sign it as correct). Its the translator that organises the notary, just find one using google. Then submit your marriage certificate with the notarised translation. You can use this to change your name everywhere. It costs about £50 (or it was about that a few years ago when I had my Swedish marriage certificate translated and notarised).

To be honest, why don't you just ring your solicitor and ask them? We're not going to know what is acceptable to them and what isn't?Firms will have slightly varying procedures re ID, although they will all ask for it.

agree with Collaborate, you may not need to waste time and money having your marriage certificate translated.