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  • 02-09-2017, 11:07 PM
    edkrane
    Name Discrepancy Between Birth Certificate and All Other Legal ID
    My question involves name change laws in the State of: Oregon.
    This is not about plans to change my name, but a huge dilemma.
    My first name on my birth certificate is spelled slightly different than the way I have spelled it for 60 years. Every legal document I have ever filled out, signed...has been with the preferred, common spelling. My DMV, IRS, Social Security...all identify me with the common spelling I've always used. Only now that I've become a successor Trustee...AND tried to open a Trust checking account am I now stopped dead in my tracks. The banks won't open an account since my mother named me as trustee with my birth certificate spelling. I absolutely have to open a trust account to pay bills on my mom's estate in the Trust. Every direction I turn there is a roadblock. Any advise? I am really stuck.
  • 02-10-2017, 06:07 AM
    cbg
    Re: A Lifelong Name Issue Snowballing
    Open an account with the name as spelled on your birth certificate.
  • 02-10-2017, 07:04 AM
    flyingron
    Re: A Lifelong Name Issue Snowballing
    You can get a name change order officially changing your name to what you've been using: https://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/DMV/pages/dv/chgname.aspx
  • 02-10-2017, 07:36 AM
    llworking
    Re: A Lifelong Name Issue Snowballing
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    You can get a name change order officially changing your name to what you've been using: https://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/DMV/pages/dv/chgname.aspx

    My mom had to do that...not the same state but the same exact circumstances. It was a relatively quick and easy process.
  • 02-10-2017, 07:39 AM
    flyingron
    Re: A Lifelong Name Issue Snowballing
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    Quoting llworking
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    My mom had to do that...not the same state but the same exact circumstances. It was a relatively quick and easy process.

    A friend of mine always went by a different name than what was on his birth certificate. It wasn't quite the same case as he knew that he was using a nick name. It finally came to a head when the TSA started being a bit more aggressive about checking identities. He did the name change.

    If you are an adult, not in the subject of some legal proceeding (civil or criminal), name changes are pretty perfunctory.

    One thing I normally recommend (though it may not really be necessary in the poster's case), is to go the clerk after your order is issued and get a bunch of certified true copies of it so you can send them to the DMV, SSA, banks, etc... It's easier if you just blow the $10 while you're there than having to run back and dig up the order later.
  • 02-10-2017, 08:05 PM
    edkrane
    Re: A Lifelong Name Issue Snowballing
    The bank requires photo ID with the birth spelling...impossible.

    The bank I just visited just suggested a "ONE AND THE SAME PERSON AFFIDAVIT," which I'd never heard of. What I need to have notarized, sworn, or whatever, is that "I, the undersigned, having been named with a first name spelling as indicated on my birth certificate, and whereas I have opted to use a different spelling of my first name most of my lifetime...do hereby swear that I am one in the same person."

    The bank says they would accept such an affidavit, and be good to go with the account. Where would I find such a document?
  • 02-11-2017, 12:23 AM
    flyingron
    Re: A Lifelong Name Issue Snowballing
    Usually in this case, if you changed your name the ORDER of the name change would be sufficient for proving that your current identity matches the birth identity.

    If you don't, a lawyer could draft the affidavit you're referring to. The issue is that you probably need someone (other than you) who can reasonably attest to the fact that you and the birth name person are the same.
  • 02-11-2017, 09:55 AM
    jk
    Re: A Lifelong Name Issue Snowballing
    While I have found no Oregon state form, several other states do have official one in the same affidavits. You could research those and review them to get a good idea of what the state would likely be expecting to see on such a statement

    in the end, all such an affidavit is is a statement you attest to being true. It allows the reciever to use that if there should be any issues in the future should it come to light you arent actually the person you claim to be.
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