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Updating your name after a court order, state by state.

A judge has granted your new name. The steps are federal, but the fees, forms, and rules are your state's. Pick yours for the exact sequence — Social Security first, then your DMV, passport, and voter registration — with your certified order as the proving document.

States marked Form pre-filled are the 21 where the Kit fills your state's actual DMV form from your answers. Everywhere else we link the official form and fill everything federal.

More name-change guides

After the death of a spouseReturning to a former name: what a death certificate can and can't do, and the routes that actually work.The SAVE Act and changed namesThe proposed proof-of-citizenship rule for voter registration, and the documents that bridge a birth-certificate mismatch.

Every guide funnels into the same 10-minute questionnaire — we prepare the paperwork for whichever state you're in.

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