In the UK, a person can legally
alter their name with the use of a Deed Poll instrument. A Deed Poll, like a
Decree Absolute, Marriage Certificate, or Civil Partnership Certificate, is
official documents that allows someone to have their name changed in official
records. Without this certificate or another comparable sort of documentary
verification, government bodies, corporations, and organizations virtually ever
acknowledge a name change.
Does a Deed Poll Need to Be
Reordered?
Use our online form to Re-order your deed
poll at a discounted price. Our objective is to ship out posts
as quickly as we can. Delivery times vary. A Deed Poll can be used to change
any part of a person's name. People may choose to change just their surname,
only their forename, or both of their surname and forename.
This paper needs to be completed
before it can be used as formal documentation of a name change and become
operational. To perform a Deed Poll, one only needs to sign it in front of a
witness. Through the use of a Deed Poll, the individual promises to give up and
never use their old name again, to go by their new name at all times, and to
insist that others only call them by their new name.
As soon as a Deed Poll is
executed, a person can use it to have all of their records such as their
driver's license, passport, and bank account information changed. For all
official documents to be updated, the name change needs to be submitted to all
government agencies, corporations, and organizations.
You should safely store your Deed
Poll with your birth certificate after you have corrected all records with it.
This allows you to easily create them together if you need to show how the name
you are using and your birth name differ.