I suppose each individual office might know whether a 13-year-old divorce decree will fly. My concern is that people often try to save themselves trouble by giving less-than-authoritative answers.
So if I call the DMV and they tell me "No, we can't take a 13-year-old divorce decree," I'm concerned they may really be saying "We don't want you clogging up our queue, take it somewhere else," and the information may be dead wrong.
I'm not against calling. But I was hoping someone in the field of law could first tell me authoritatively whether a 13-year-old divorce decree still stands in Illinois, particularly where the formal order restoring a birth name is concerned.
It'd give me a leg to stand on if we have to sit in an office and argue.

