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From: "Heather Figueroa" <>
Subject: Re: [CUL] Surnames and Englis Common Law
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 13:35:27 -0400
References: <NDBBLBDACKCKGPAIMBDNEEDMCBAA.joyces@iprimus.com.au> <002901c11db8$a6666180$c7b13bcb@oemcomputer>


Not in Canada, David. You have to change it through a lawyer and
publication for 3 consecutive weeks in 2 newspapers. And it costs quite
a bit.

We don't have a 'Deed Poll' that I know of.......when I worked in law,
we just did the paper work and applied to the Courts for the name
change. Seems folks in financial straits were prone to do this, for
example. So the newspaper publication (plus the Gov't Gazette
publication) was a deterrent.

Cheers.....Heather (Brampton, Ontario)

> Essentially, English Common Law allows you to use any surname you wish
as
> long as it is not for fraudulent purposes. There s no legal necessity
to go
> through a Deed Poll or other formal process to change your surname.
>
> Very few places have changed from Common Law to Statute Law on this
issue.
> One that I know about, is Western Australia in the 1920s.
>
> Despite there being no legal requirement, today there is tremendous
> practical pressure to use a Deed Poll, as we have bank accounts,
driver's
> licences, tax file numbers, social security numbers, passports and all
the
> other paraphernalia of the modern bureaucratic dictatorships in which
we
> live.
>
> Regards
> David Armstrong,
> Maylands, Western Australia
> Researching
> Irving, Story, Sutton, Gibson, Goodfellow,
> Pattinson, Calvert
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joyce Sinclair" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 3:56 PM
> Subject: [CUL]
>
>
> > I was interested to see Mel's answer about the registration of a
child
> where
> > the parents are not married.
> >
> > Following on from this can anyone tell me - if the father is not
present
> can
> > the child still be given his surname? I have a situation where the
child
> > was registered with the father's family name but the father probably
would
> > not be present at the registration. Could the father's family name
be
> used
> > even though he could not be named as the father?
> >
> >
> >
> > Joyce Sinclair
> > Perth, Western Australia
> > email:
> >
> >
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