That is exactly why I decided against changing my name legally. It runs through so many things:
- birth certificate
- driver’s license
- bank accounts
- credit cards
- car title
- home ownership
- engineering license
- medical and dental records
- online store accounts
- Social Security
- pensions
- public school and university records
- will
- voting information
And those are just the ones that occurred to me while I was writing. All you need is for something to get hung up because a name somewhere didn’t get changed. At 73, given the effort and constant checking, I didn’t see an upside…
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