Name change

[Demise 1,280]

21 hours ago, Psychokarken said:

My wife was divorced and she kept using her ex husband last name. 

She has this name on all the documents we are going to submit.

The only document that still has her old name is her birth certificate. 

We don’t know what to put in the section where it asks for other names that have been used.

Also do we need a proof of name change? And if we do what would it be? Because she didn’t change her name through a court. She changed it through a social security office.

Thanks!

 

Other names used is self-explanatory. Put her maiden name, and her previous married name there.

For evidence of name changes:

Maiden -> First Married: Marriage certificate to her ex, also include a copy of her divorce order showing that she's free to marry.

First married -> Second Married: Marriage certificate between you two.

 

You can also put an explanation in the last page of the form explaining "I was born Jane Doe, married to Tom Smith, took his last name, divorced, didn't go back to my maiden name, then I married to my current spouse Andy Jones, and took his last name."

Edited July 24, 2023 by Demise

[Its Me Again 7]

45 minutes ago, Demise said:

 

Other names used is self-explanatory. Put her maiden name, and her previous married name there.

For evidence of name changes:

Maiden -> First Married: Marriage certificate to her ex, also include a copy of her divorce order showing that she's free to marry.

First married -> Second Married: Marriage certificate between you two.

 

You can also put an explanation in the last page of the form explaining "I was born Jane Doe, married to Tom Smith, took his last name, divorced, didn't go back to my maiden name, then I married to my current spouse Andy Jones, and took his last name."

She didn’t take my last name. She is still using her ex husband last name.

[milimelo 4,477]

33 minutes ago, Psychokarken said:

She didn’t take my last name. She is still using her ex husband last name.

And that's ok. Some people never change their maiden name to married name, some people don't change last name to maiden name after a divorce, totally ok. 

[Its Me Again 7]

1 hour ago, milimelo said:

And that's ok. Some people never change their maiden name to married name, some people don't change last name to maiden name after a divorce, totally ok. 

 

1 hour ago, milimelo said:

And that's ok. Some people never change their maiden name to married name, some people don't change last name to maiden name after a divorce, totally ok. 

Yes, that’s true!

[Demise 1,280]

17 hours ago, Psychokarken said:

She didn’t take my last name. She is still using her ex husband last name.

Okay yeah in that case put that as the current name and the maiden name under previous names used and that's that.