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May not affect you, but rather your son at some point in his life. My mom had a weird case were the Patriot Act's requirements for name construction "broke" the legal name she used for herself (firstname givenmiddlename husbandlastname) on everything. Her driver license was renewed about 8 years ago, and suddenly her DL name was firstname misspelledmaidenlastname husbandlastname. Suddenly her DL didn't match any of her official documentation like her passport, marriage license, and I think all social security / medicare IDs and documentation, plus bank accounts, property records, and on and on. She couldn't use the DL to change her name with all of the impacted person records because the maiden name used by the DMV was misspelled. Example of the error, DL maiden name was Jordan, but her actual maiden name was Jorden. She challenged the DMV, they pulled up her birth certificate only to find that there was a typo on the birth cert dating back to the 40s. Nobody in all that time caught the typo. In order to have the birth cert corrected she had to go back to the state she was born in and request a fix. They required out of a list of things, 2 or 3 (can't exactly remember) forms of proof of error. She found one proof easily, but not anything additional. Spent months trying to find anything else that proved she went by Jorden as an unmarried woman. Finally found that my brother's birth certificate required her maiden name and on that she had spelled her maiden name as Jorden. My birth cert issued from a different state did not have her maiden name. At that point, she was able to apply for a correction with secretary of state, apply for a new DL / passport. Then spent another 1-2 years fixing all SS/medicare, bank, insurance, credit card, property records... This all happened after her parents had died, and iirc one of the forms of proof she could provide was a birth parent attestation of error. Obviously dead men tell no tales. |