Changing Your Name in Canada (eBook)

Tanya Lee Howe, Eileen Velthuis (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2014 | EPUB Version of 1st Edition
112 Seiten
Self-Counsel Press (Verlag)
978-1-77040-948-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This is a no nonsense guide to help Canadians navigate through the different procedures for changing their names legally throughout the provinces and territories. It’s not easy to navigate government websites to find the information needed to change a name legally. Information can be spread out through different website pages and reading the fine print of the various provincial and territorial acts. This book provides readers easy access to all the information they need to legally change their name in Canada.

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It's not easy to navigate government websites and forms to find the information needed to change a name. To complicate matters more, each province and territory has their own vital statistics agency rules and legal acts when it comes to formally or informally changing a name. While marriage and divorce allow for the informal changing of a surname, Changing Your Name in Canada provides readers with easy access to all the information they need to legally (formally) change their name, which involves the re-issuing of birth certificates with your new name. This book not only includes how to change your own name, whatever the circumstance, but also your children's names. You'll learn about the consents you'll need and the affidavits you'll swear or affirm in order to legally change your name or your children's names in every province and territory in Canada. The book includes resources and contact information for the various government agencies you'll need to contact, and a helpful Identification Update List that will keep you on task as you contact the various places, people, and organizations to update your name, whether you want to change it informally or formally.

Inhalt

1 An Introduction to Changing Your Name in Canada 1
2 Alberta 3
1. Who Doesn’t Require a Legal Name Change? 3
1.1 Marriage 3
1.2 Divorce 4
1.3 Change of parent 4
1.4 Amendment of a name 4
2. Who Is Eligible to Apply? 5
3. Name Restrictions 6
4. Application Process 6
4.1 Necessary documents 6
4.2 Fingerprint requirements 8
4.3 Publication of name change 8
4.4 Affidavit 9
5. Cost and Payment Methods 9
6. Contact 9
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3 British Columbia 11
1. Who Doesn’t Require a Legal Name Change? 11
1.1 Marriage 11
1.2 Divorce 12
1.3 Amendment of a name 12
2. Who Is Eligible to Apply? 12
3. Name Restrictions 13
4. Application Process 13
4.1 Necessary documents 14
4.2 Fingerprint requirements 15
4.3 Publication of name change 15
4.4 Statutory declaration 15
5. Cost and Payment Methods 16
6. Contact 16
4 Manitoba 17
1. Who Doesn’t Require a Legal Name Change? 17
1.1 Marriage 17
1.2 Divorce 18
1.3 Amendment of a name 18
2. Who Is Eligible to Apply? 18
3. Name Restrictions 19
4. Application Process 19
4.1 Necessary documents 19
4.2 Fingerprint requirements 21
4.3 Publication of name change 21
4.4 Affidavit 22
5. Cost and Payment Methods 22
6. Contact 22
5 New Brunswick 25
1. Who Doesn’t Require a Legal Name Change? 25
1.1 Marriage 25
Contents vii
1.2 Divorce 26
1.3 Amendment of a name 26
2. Who Is Eligible to Apply? 26
3. Name Restrictions 26
4. Application Process 27
4.1 Necessary documents 27
4.2 Publication of name change 29
4.3 Statements 29
5. Cost and Payment Methods 29
6. Contact 30
6 Newfoundland and Labrador 31
1. Who Doesn’t Require a Legal Name Change? 31
1.1 Marriage 31
1.2 Divorce 32
1.3 Amendment of a name 32
2. Who Is Eligible to Apply? 32
3. Name Restrictions 33
4. Application Process 33
4.1 Necessary documents 33
4.3 Publication of name change 35
4.4 Affidavit 35
5. Cost and Payment Methods 36
6. Contact 36
7 Northwest Territories 37
1. Who Doesn’t Require a Legal Name Change? 37
1.1 Marriage 37
1.2 Divorce or separation from
common-law spouse 38
2. Who Is Eligible to Apply? 38
3. Name Restrictions 39
4. Change of Name of a Child 39
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5. Application Process 40
5.1 Necessary documents 40
5.2 Declaration 40
5.3 Publication of name change 41
6. Cost and Payment Methods 41
7. Contact 42
8 Nova Scotia 43
1. Who Doesn’t Require a Legal Name Change? 43
1.1 Marriage 43
1.2 Divorce 44
2. Who Is Eligible to Apply? 44
3. Name Restrictions 45
4. Change of Name of a Child 45
5. Application Process 46
5.1 Necessary documents 46
5.2 Statutory declaration 46
5.3 Publication of name change 47
6. Cost and Payment Methods 47
7. Contact 48
9 Nunavut 49
1. Who Doesn’t Require a Legal Name Change? 49
1.1 Marriage 49
1.2 Divorce 50
2. Who Is Eligible to Apply? 50
3. Name Restrictions 50
4. Change of Name of a Child 51
5. Application Process 52
5.1 Necessary documents 52
5.2 Affidavit 53
5.3 Publication of name change 53
6. Cost and Payment Methods 53
7. Contact 53
Contents ix
10 Ontario 55
1. Who Doesn’t Require a Legal Name Change? 55
1.1 Marriage 55
1.2 Divorce 56
1.3 Name change election 56
2. Who Is Eligible to Apply? 56
3. Name Restrictions 57
4. Change of Name of a Child 57
5. Application Process 58
5.1 Necessary documents 58
5.2 Guarantor’s statement 59
5.3 Statutory declaration 60
5.4 Publication of name change 60
6. Cost and Payment Methods 61
7. Contact 61
11 Prince Edward Island 63
1. Who Doesn’t Require a Legal Name Change? 63
1.1 Marriage 63
1.2 Divorce 64
2. Who Is Eligible to Apply? 64
3. Name Restrictions 64
4. Change of Name of a Child 65
5. Application Process 65
5.1 Necessary documents 65
5.2 Publication of name change 66
6. Cost and Payment Methods 67
7. Contact 67
12 Québec 69
1. Marriage and Divorce in Québec 69
2. Who Is Eligible to Apply? 70
3. Name Restrictions 71
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4. Application Process 71
4.1 Necessary documents 72
4.2 Publication of name change 72
5. Cost 73
6. Contact 74
13 Saskatchewan 75
1. Who Doesn’t Require a Legal Name Change? 75
1.1 Marriage 75
1.2 Divorce, annulment, or widowed 76
1.3 Amendment of a name 76
2. Who Is Eligible to Apply? 76
3. Name Restrictions 77
4. Application Process 77
4.1 Necessary documents 77
4.2 Publication of name change 79
4.3 Affidavit 79
5. Cost and Payment Methods 79
6. Contact 80
14 Yukon 81
1. Who Doesn’t Require a Legal Name Change? 81
1.1 Marriage 81
1.2 Divorce 82
1.3 Amendment of a name 82
2. Who Is Eligible to Apply? 82
3. Name Restrictions 83
4. Application Process 83
4.1 Necessary documents 83
4.2 Publication of name change 85
4.3 Affidavit 85
5. Cost and Payment Methods 85
6. Contact 86
Contents xi
Appendix I — Resources 87
Vital Statistics Offices 87
Offices Outside of Canada 91
Name Change Acts 92
Appendix II — Identification Update List 95
Download Kit 97

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.10.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Reference Series
• Verlagsort: Vancouver
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• ISBN-10: 1-77040-948-3 / 1770409483
• ISBN-13: 978-1-77040-948-4 / 9781770409484