Deed poll question for children please

[Diamondsandstones]

DD is 15 years and 10 months.
She has not had contact with her father for the last eight years by his choice and rarely before that. She wants to have the same name as everyone else. She's quite upset at being known by a different name.

I'm presuming if we did a deed poll now we would need his permission but what about when she turns 16?
General info online states that she can do her own at 16 but does she still need permission from him at 16?

If she can do her own at 16 then I imagine no permission is required

She doesn't need his permission at 16, (my god daughter did it very shortly after her 16th birthday - her dad had cleared off years ago).

Thanks wellgosh.
Do you know what method they used?
There's info saying you can do it free but seems some places aren't accepting that.

You can do a change of name deed with one of the free sites online and everywhere accepts them.

I changed my dd's name with no permission from the father even though he is on the birth certificate. I should mention he does not have parental responsibility as she was born before the law changed.

16 for a deed poll and yes you can do it for free, I did, as did a friend.
but the poSOme places were a bit snotty but the passport office accepted it so wandering into the bank with a deed poll and passports in new and old(cancelled) names helped.

I'd try and do it before she sits GCSE's. Probably a right faff getting the certificates changed.

Thanks sashh. Yeh Santander are already saying it would have to be enrolled for name change.

She's already known as her known name at school. There was a mix up at enrollment when they missed off her legal name off the register (I had genuinely given both) so they only know her as her known name. Unless you have to take ID when you do your exams! Will be changed before then anyhow.

If you wait til she’s 16 and use a free site, it does not have to be enrolled. I know this because I used one and bank with Santander and they accepted it.

The issue with the GCSEs isn't the doing the exams, it is having the exam certificate in the legal name, which is then needed in later life for proving the certificate you are waving at an employer is really yours.

Though for various things in later life she will still need to give previous names (eg DBS check).

Is it definitely sixteen because I've just read on a site that they can do their own at 16 but still need permission from all those with PR.

Under 18 I mean .

hanks sashh. Yeh Santander are already saying it would have to be enrolled for name change.

Open a new account in the new name then close the old one. It's odd, the passport office were fine, the DVLA were fine. I already had bank accounts in my 'new' name, my friend didn't and the banks said things like, "it doesn't look real" but when asked to point out any t and c and threatening to move banks suddenly made them accept it.

Legally you don't even need a deed poll you can do a statutory declaration but most people have heard of a deed poll.

She could already just call herself by the name she wants even if she can't put it into place officially yet.

I'm not sure how my god daughter did it, but this site confirms you don't need parental consent over 16.
www.deedpoll.org.uk/CanIChangeMyChildsName.html

No problem having exam certificates in an old name. You always have a paper trail of the change. No different to when people change their name upon marriage.