Jun
23
2016

10 Reasons People Change Their Names

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1) NEVER LIKED THEIR NAME TO BEGIN WITH They told me their name didn’t ‘feel like them’, had never ‘resonated’, was from a father they’d never known, or one who had actually abused them as a child. Most of them had wanted to change their name for years,

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Jun
23
2016

Why are more people changing their name?

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More and more people are changing their name by deed poll. Even those with non-embarrassing monikers are wanting to start afresh but why? It used to be only a select group of people who would change their names – those who had been saddled with a silly one or the rich

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Jun
23
2016

Changing your name by deed poll can have consequences

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Changing your name by deed poll can have consequences as a father-of-seven has been jailed after claiming more than £120,000 in housing benefit to pay the rent on a house he already owned. When Teresa Belton-Martin, 34, and Abrar Abbasi, 32, moved into his property in Belle Vue Road,

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Apr
15
2014

How much does a name change by deed poll cost?

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Typing in the phrase “name change by deed poll cost”, into Google will bring up a huge range of websites dedicated to changing your name by deed poll and indeed a multimillion pound industry has been created since the advent of the word wide web to help you do this.

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Mar
31
2014

Is there an official deed poll service in the UK?

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The UK Government does not provide a “official deed poll service” in the UK. Deed polls or change of name deeds have been created for many years, by Solicitors and notaries and often charged in excess of £100 for you to do so.

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