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On 6/23/2020 at 7:51 PM, aaron2020 said:

Google "your state + name change after marriage." 

How?  By operation of law.  The legal code states that a person can use a marriage certificate to change his/her last name to that of his/her spouse.  It doesn't requires an option to "record" the change.  The marriage certificate with both your names allows her to take your last name.  No recording. No nothing because the legal code allows her to take your name based on the marriage certificate with both your names. 

It depends on the state. Here in NY, if you don't write down the new last name on the marriage license, you will keep the old name and can't change it later.

 

Some states doesn't have the option to write down the new last name on the license, so they have the option to change it or not 

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On 6/23/2020 at 7:27 PM, Greenbaum said:

It's not easier later. You must hire a lawyer and file papers. Changing your name from the marriage and at the time of marriage is by and a far the best way of doing it. You are already paying to have it changed by way of a marriage license. Besides, it legal to do so, so why not?

You don't need a lawyer to change your name. Just go to the court, fill out the paperwork.

I'm doing this right now here in NYC, since I wanted to change my first name and couldn't do that with the marriage license.

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13 hours ago, Ayrton said:

You don't need a lawyer to change your name. Just go to the court, fill out the paperwork.

I'm doing this right now here in NYC, since I wanted to change my first name and couldn't do that with the marriage license.

In the OP's case the topic was about changing the last name hence the need is not there for a lawyer to do it if you can change it with the marriage documents. :D

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1 hour ago, Greenbaum said:

In the OP's case the topic was about changing the last name hence the need is not there for a lawyer to do it if you can change it with the marriage documents. :D

What I tried to say is that a lawyer is not needed at all. Even if you didn't change the name with the marriage, like in NY for example.

 

You just need to go to court, wait for the judge to approve it, and then use the court order to change the name everywhere.

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