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Comment by stevenjohns | Hacker News Reader

> Yes, you can legally change your name but it takes a lot of time and effort and could cause you a lot of grief with your family and professional confusion.

It took me 45 minutes at the Births/Deaths/Marriages office. If I recall, it cost $60.

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> "No way! Why should I change it? He’s the one who sucks."

Relevant quote from Office Space

And how much time did you spend updating your new information with the government, your banks, your work, and other services that you interact with?

Add an extra 5 minutes for every official form in the future where you have to answer "Did you previously use a different name?" and provide documentation for it. Add more time if your name change happened in a different country and you need to provide officially translated documentation.

And it took me 3 months, $180, and being ordered to publish a notice in the local newspaper who was really uninterested in following through and then charged me another $170 for it.

It's different everywhere and it's usually not easy.

Did you publish your name change in the Diarrhea Times?

https://sludgefeed.com/full-first-issue-diarrhea-times-natha...

okay what

And if I had gotten to choose the newspaper, I would have chosen one that is more friendly and more representative of the local community than the glorified blog operated out of another state that I was ordered to use

In what country?

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