Hello All - I'm at wits end here in South Carolina. My husband and I moved to SC and purchased a home here. This is our legal home and only home. We are trying to get SC driver's license, registration changed to SC, pay our taxes for the cars - We cannot be listed on the tax rolls until all the above reflects our SC home address. I'm going to use silly names to show you what's happening. My birth cert reads Colleen Angela Smith. When I got married in CA, I changed my name to Angela Smith Jones (my husband being the "Jones" part). I dropped my first name because it's never been used. SS changed my card to reflect my new married name Angela Smith Jones and you can trace that right back to my original birth name. I am retired and get social security checks. SC DMV is refusing to issue a license and registration because my first name is not the same on both documents. They said to go to SS and ask that they issue a new card with my birth first name: Colleen Angela Smith Jones. SS says they cannot do that unless I go to a court judge and pay for name change. Take this down the line and you see my dilema. Everything that identifies me would have to change, including things like the deed on our new house. If I am legal by federal standards - how can they force this issue?? Time is running out for deadlines SC has issued and I don't know what to do. But I don't think I should have to change my "legal" name to do this. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

