Name change/deed poll/divorce

[rusholmemuffins]

I'm currently trying to divorce my ex husband but it's taking forever.

I need to renew my passport. It ran out shortly after my honeymoon and as we never went abroad. It's still in my maiden name. I want to change my name before I renew it as I don't want to renew it in my current legal name because I can I longer prove that I married (as I have submitted my marriage certificate the to the courts when I filed for divorce.

I have emailed my solicitor but so far I've had no response and I wanted advice. Does this cause problems?

Thanks in advance.

You can change your name at any time free via:-

freedeedpoll.org.uk

It's immediate - and you just have to notify everyone like your bank etc.

I've spoken to deedpoll. There is a charge - my question is whether there are any implications changing my name before I am divorced?

What name do you want? Are you keeping your maiden name? I don't understand the passport renewal thing if you haven't changed the name in your passport anyway

If it's currently in your maiden name then just renew it in that name?

I've spoken to deedpoll. There is a charge -

NO there isn't. Who told you this exactly?

I can't think of a reason not to just renew it in the name that is, as for as the Passport Office is concerned, is your name and has been throughout.

Your in-date passport can then be used as evidence of your current name when switching everything else

There's no such thing as your "legal name", just renew it in your maiden name.

Deedpoll told me.

There is a charge of £33 plus another £4 if I want to change my title.

I've never renewed my passport. It was just a question. It's in my maiden name. I just wanted to know if I could renew it on my maiden name if that legally isn't my name any longer.

Not sure why that's confusing.

There's no such thing as your "legal name", just renew it in your maiden name.

Well, I wouldn't know that as I'm not from a legal background. Which is why I posted here.

You can do a deed poll yourself that doesn't incur a charge. You only get a charge if you want to enrol the change at the court which is £36

https://www.gov.uk/change-name-deed-poll/make-an-adult-deed-poll

Pointless to do a deed poll when you can just renew your passport in the name that's already on it. You can then use the passport as ID to change anything that has your married name on it (did you change it with some places but just not your passport?)

Ok I can't comment on whether or not you should change but to do a deedpoll I'd free. No need to register with anyone. It is, by itself, a legal document.

freedeedpoll.org.uk

It is entirely unnecessary to refer to a "deedpoll". All anyone needs is a change of name deed. Make sufficient copies (either original ones or certified by a solicitor as true copies) to send one each to DVLA, passport agency etc. No fee needs to be paid to anyone, and you avoid the unnecessary tedium of registering it and advertising it.

Yeah - changed it everywhere else (married for 12 years, so married name on everything). Never renewed passport as cheapskate ex never wanted to go abroad. Furthest I got was Sussex!

I've spoken to deedpoll. There is a charge - my question is whether there are any implications changing my name before I am divorced?

Some companies charge, but you can also do it for free, I did.

Which name do you want on your passport? Did you change your name when you married? If the passport is in your maiden name and that is the name you want to use just renew it.

Deedpoll told me.

A deedpoll is a document not a person or an office, I could do one for you now and charge you what ever you would pay.

You don't actually need one, you can call yourself what you want.

But I don't currently have anything 'legal' documentation wise in my maiden name. Apart from my passport.

So the question was, can I just renew the passport as it currently stands (in my maiden name) as everything else is in my married name? Yes, seems to be the answer and I don't need to do anything else, not even contacting deedpoll?

OK - the woman on the end of the deedpoll helpline which I found on the deedpoll website told me.

There's no implications in reverting to your maiden name except that banks/gov.uk/etc will want to see your decree nisi before agreeing to the change - unless you print off a free deed of name change letter.

You can legally renew your passport in your maiden name.

There is a charge if you do it on that deedpoll website and on some other sites too but equally you can do it for no charge. [and donate the 'payment' to charity if you like!]

For instance - I have to have a DBS for work. I had to give them my married name, though I will be known by my maiden name at work. Which is why it made me think there would be an issue.

Do you have your birth certificate? Is that in your maiden name?

Beware too - there are many deedpoll websites with varying charges all telling you a load of rubbish.

I think I have my decree nisi - just not my decree absolute.

Men don't have this shit to deal with do they?

On a DBS you always have to put all your surnames on.

Well, yes. My birth certificate is in my maiden name...

It's also in Cantonese which causes another set of problems.

opps.. sorry op.. they would want an absolute I think. [or a free deedpoll letter] If you get a free one you can print out more than one and get them all witnessed and then you have a few so that you can send off to DVLA [for example] and still have others to show your bank etc.