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Name-change guides, by situation.
Pick what happened, then your state. Every guide is built from the same verified agency data as the paid checklist — Social Security first, then your DMV, passport, and voter registration.
- After marriageYour certified marriage certificate is the document. The order of updates, your state's DMV fee and form, and which new names your state allows.State guides
- After divorceGoing back to a former name with a decree that restores it — and what to do when the decree is silent.State guides
- With a court orderA judge has granted the change. Every agency, in the right order, with the certified order as your document.State guides
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.Changing your name in another countryCountry by country: what marriage, divorce or a change by choice does to your name there, the papers, and the steps in order.
Every guide funnels into the same 10-minute questionnaire — we prepare the paperwork for whichever state and situation you're in.
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