How do i legally change my last name?

Can I legally change my last name? How much does it cost? Where do I go?

• I'm sick of my family & I don't want to have their name anymore. I want to change my last name to my best friend's last name. How can I do that? My best friend is the only one who treats me like family.

• Answer:

  You go to the court house in your county. Ask for the paperwork. Lots of people are there standing in line doing the same thing. No pressure. Fill out the paperwork and pay $100 processing fee. There is a schedual of requirement you have to follow to the letter. My freind has no short term memory, so they helped a lot being shure she had the dates properly filled in her memory book. Fill out first form asking to change your name from this to that. Peg it on a public notice board with 100 other peoples. In a few weeks you go back and take it down and get it stamped. Fill out another form that gose to a judge. After the judge stamps it, you fill out a third form that says your name is changed and hang it back on the public notice board for a week or so. Take it down and get it stamped and they issue a great certificate saying you have officialy changed your name. Then you have to go into Social security office and stand in line with the certificate and show it to them and they will have your legal name officialy changed on your social security card. Same number, new name Get your ID changed to be legal. DMV changes your Drivers liscence and insures your new name is at this legal adress and gives you a new drivers liscence with new name. Costs about 20 bucks. THEN you take the new drivers liscence ID and the change of name Certificate from the court house, to Social Security office and change it on your SSI Number. Presto now you have a legal name change and everything is legal all around. Its Official. Think carefully aobut what name you want because it becomes an important identifying feature of who you are. You can't help changing yourself with it. Get a Personal Mail Box so all mail comes to that place and you don't have to broad cast your name change every time you pick it up at the post office and your family can't trace you to your new physical adress. Most important. Make the life changes you need to be happy and leave the past in the past.