Quote Quoting cdwjava
View Post
I'm not so sure that a clerk at the NV DMV will care a fig about a California Family Code section. The OP will likely have to work through the NV DMV bureaucracy to address this.

Here's some info:

http://www.dmvnv.com/namechange.htm
since they were married in California, they were allowed to change their names under California law in the manner they did. Since we have that old full faith and credit thing going, the folks in Nevada need to care about the family law section I quoted for California.

as well, the folks in Nevada require a copy of the marriage certificate (from California, whose laws apply to it) which shows the current names.

Without looking, I suspect this stems from the fact that Nevada does not allow a middle name change when getting married. As such, per their laws, the OP could not have done what they did. Since the OP was married in California, the California laws apply to the name change and due to the full faith and credit clause, Nevada must honor the name change, which is legal under the germane law which is California law.