I left my ex husband over 3 years ago. I am currently 8 months pregnant to the man of my dreams with divorce proceedings well underway, but its taken far longer than I thought it would. I am scheduled for a c-section in just over a week due to a few complications, and I do NOT want to give birth under my ex husband's last name, nor do I want all of my paperwork having his name on it or for my Daughter to look back at it all in 10 years and wonder who this person is.
I read somewhere once that when you're married, you can legally use either your married OR your maiden name on certain documents. Would this count at a hospital? If I take the marriage certificate into the hospital before my Caesar, can I change everything back to my maiden before giving birth?
Thanks Mummies :D x
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You can legally change your name when ever you want. You didn't need to wait for a divorce but many people switch between married and single name for loads of reasons.
You may want to confirm with the hospital however as you don't want to think you've got it all sorted and then find because your Medicare card has a different name it screws it up or something!
Also talk to births deaths and marriages about it. You might be able to get a name change done before then.
I was hoping this would be the case. Im blaming baby brain. I have been stressing over it for months, but it literally just hit me this morning about the thing I read ages ago where you can use either, just wasn't 100% sure.
Hospital and Medicare were my first concerns though. Will definately be doing those two first up! Thank you x
Go see medicare first, get that sorted then talk to the hospital.