Re: Resuming one's maiden name

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Val, not quite as well as it did for me, due to the total computerization of everything,

and the HIPPA laws which do NOT protect your own privacy, just the doctor's! But

it might be a good thing to do. When I did it, it was still possible to notify the

three main credit data collection agencies and (wonder of wonders!), TALK to a

live human, and clear up one's credit information (usually all wrong anyway); that is

harder to do. I did get some amazing and legitimate credit car offers (from banks where I had or had had) accounts for CREDIT CARDS, though, still have them!

Today, it might be wise to see an ACLU attorney first, but I see no harm in it so

long is one's intent is not to defraud nor to assume an identity that is not one's own.

This in California can be done as this state has decided that all married women have

a legal right to use their maiden names, subject to the above restrictions. Not every

state has such a law; some require that one go into court; had I had to do that I

rather imagine that the judge would have actually laughed at a hand-impaired person

wanting to change from "Steinkellner" back to "Rojas," -- might not have gone over

to well with a judge with an Austrian or German name, thoug! Good luck! love,

n Rojas5915@...

Re: Flippin out!

Suggestion, marianne: if things get too desperate, and I did this after my husband's

death. (He had a long, complicated German last name with 12 letters!) I had Social

Security issue me a new SSA card with my maiden name on it, and did the same for

all things used to identify me. At least in California this is entirely legal, so long as

one does not try to assume a second identity, nor that of someone else. Of course,

and this had NOT occurred to me, all my medical records, at that time, were no longer accessible. I had everything newly diagnosed, got a panoply of new doctors,

the great Internist whom I still have, and it WAS rathe fun to watch a whole lot of

medical craziness just disappear! Soooooooo, a decade later, when I became dis

abled, there were no weird medical records trailing after me! Best of good fortune

to you; there has got to be a way. Are you sure that you are not eligible for Social

Security's SSDI (Social Security Disability Insurance)? Any single person under

$2,000.00 can not only get SSDI, but often, SSI (Supplemental Security Income)

as well! There is NO income cap for the basic SSDI. Love, and pulling for you,

n Rojas5915Comcast (DOT) net

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