My question involves name change laws in the State of: Wisconsin.

Several years after my husband and I got married, we decided to create a new surname for ourselves. He got a court order legally changing his name, and as for myself, a DMV employee changed my last name on my driver's license. Apparently, that's not exactly how it should have been done. I was able to change my social security card to the new name. However, I'm now trying to apply for a passport so I can leave the country in April. When I asked about this situation at the post office today, I was told that even having both our birth certificates and marriage certificate (with our birth names) and his court order (with our new last name) is not going to be sufficient to obtain a passport for myself.

I am hoping that we can apply for another marriage license and get married again, with our current name, in order to prove that we are, in fact, who we say we are. My only concern is that I no longer have any identification with my birth name listed on it. Even my professional license is under my current name. Based on that, it seems like even trying to do a court ordered name change would be difficult because everything I have identifies me by the name I've been using for the last 7 years. Any thoughts?