Ultimately it seems like a waste of time/effort/money to go the deed poll route in most cases. Instead just contact all relevant parties (e.g. service providers etc.) and inform them of your "new" name perhaps?Changing your name after marriage
There is no legal or other obligation on anyone in Ireland to change their name on marriage. The fact that some people do, is purely based on tradition and culture. They may for example wish to signify they have joined a new family, etc. and therefore take the new name - but this is purely a social/cultural choice and has no legal basis.
How you earn your name is by use and repute. Effectively this means for most purposes, if someone wants to be known by their married name (or any other), then they just use this name and ask people to call them by it.
The only way to legally record the change of name is by executing a deed poll.
The use of the title 'Miss' or 'Ms.' or 'Mrs.' in Ireland are cultural ones that indicate whether a woman is single or married. There is no basis in law stating you are required to use an appropriate title whether you are married or single. As people earn their name by use and repute, a woman is free to use whichever title she wishes before her name. Therefore, she is free to call herself Mrs. (single name) if she so chooses.
- did you have to give the bank a form of ID to change name back? do you need to inform your s.o or d.d. companies? or just at renewal as name on account will be different?
How is that a problem?only prob is, i will have a different surname to my daughter.......
What happens when organisations etc. ask for your birth cert and it has a different name?
I didn't go down the deed poll route when I changed my name back, I just advised all relevant parties (bank, staff payroll, utility providers, etc etc). When I renewed my passport I just completed the application in my own name, and supplied my birth cert and marriage cert (to prove that I had been the person named on the passport).
- did you have to give the bank a form of ID to change name back? do you need to inform your s.o or d.d. companies? or just at renewal as name on account will be different?
only prob is, i will have a different surname to my daughter.......