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Legal Last Name Change - TX
Legal Last Name Change - TX
Legal Last Name Change - TX
The Name Change Notification process begins after your legal name change has been obtained (e.g. via marriage
certificate, divorce decree or court order), and it involves officially informing all of the relevant governmental organizations
and agencies, as well as other professional and personal service providers and affiliates of your name change. (If you
have not yet obtained a legal name change, you should visit our Texas Legal Name Change page.)
For a free, but slightly more time-consuming alternative, we have broken down Name Change Notification into two major
processes:
1. Primary Name Change Notification: Notifying the relevant government agencies of your name change
2. Secondary Name Change Notification: Notifying professional and personal affiliates and service providers of
your name change
For each process, we have created an easy-to-follow check list with all the important links, to make your name change as
smooth as possible. You should complete the Primary Name Change Notification steps first in the order that they appear,
as the earlier steps are frequently prerequisites for the later ones. If, after reviewing the information below, you feel that
you don’t have the time to complete all of these steps, this is by far the best alternative we could find.
Once you have completed the Primary Name Change Notification steps, you can go through the Secondary Name
Change Notification steps.
e have also provided you with name change form letters in Microsoft Word format, which you can download and alter as
you see fit. You can mail these forms, or copy and paste them into an email and send them electronically to the
approprate agencies.
1. Financial Company Form Letter: Use this for your banks, mutual funds, investmant plans, IRAs and other such financial
accounts.
2. Medical Insurance Plan Form Letter: If you are insured by your employer, than the HR department will typically take care
of this name change for you. But just in case, you can use this form for all of your medical/dental insurance providers.
3. Generic Form Letter: Use this for all other miscellanious organizations and agencies whom you want to inform of your name
change.
In addition to the list below, we also provide a Complete Printable Checklist in Microsoft Word format.
Complete the SS-5 Form, and take (or mail) your completed
application and required documentation to your local social security
office. You will need to provide proof of: (1) your legal name change, SS-5 Form
Social Security
(2) identity, and (3) US citizenship (if you were not a US citizen prior Local Offices
to the name change). Locate the nearest office via the link to the
right.
Good news here. Once you change your name with the Social
IRS Security Administration, the IRS will be informed within 10 days. So
no additional work is necessary on your part.
Follow the link to the appropriate form described below and click the
disclaimer checkbox, then press “Submit”. You will be asked a series
of questions to ensure you are using the correct form.
If you have had your valid passport for over one year, and it was
issued when you were 16 or older use the DS-82 Form.
If your valid passport was issued within the past year use the DS- DS-82 Form
5504 Form.
If you do not have a valid passport; your passport was lost, stolen or DS-5504 Form
Passport damaged; it has expired; or you don’t have proof of legal name DS-11 Form
change, use the DS-11 Form, which needs to be submitted in Local Passport
person. Office
Fill out the correct form, then print and either mail to the Passport
Agency or take to your local passport office. Make sure to include
the appropriate fee, proof of legal name change, your
old validpassport, and two passport photos. Locate the Local
Passport Office nearest you.
Avoid all the hassle. Get your passport in a HURRY!
Follow the link to the right, click “Register To Vote”, and fill out the
form. If you are already registered to vote, be sure to select “No” for
question 5, “Are you registering for the first time?”. Once you select
“No”, a dialog box will appear that will give you the option to select Voter Registration
Voter Registration
that you are changing your name. You can also change your Form
address here if you have moved. Fill in the remaining questions,
print it and mail it. The application will give you the address of where
you need to send the form.
Post Office This item is somewhat out of place here—it really pertains to a Post Office Change
change of address. But odds are decent that if you’re changing your
name, you are also changing your address. So if this applies to you,
follow the link to the right to easily change your address online with
the USPS.
Employer (In most cases, simply contact your human resources. They will typically update your name with payroll,
medical plans, 401K etc.)
Banks
Credit Cards
Retirement Plans
Professional Organizations (e.g. State Bar Association for attorneys, Nursing Association for nurses etc.)
Doctors