just wondering if anyone can help, my daughter has a different surname to me as me and her mum had split up when she was born, we are back together now and really want her name changing.

Can any one guide me on how to go about this and costs ect ...:)

How old is your daughter?

4 - 5 in october

cant it just be done by deed poll, i know if your not the father but want to change a childs surname you have to adopt the child...im not sure on this mate

just wondering if anyone can help, my daughter has a different surname to me as me and her mum had split up when she was born, we are back together now and really want her name changing.

Can any one guide me on how to go about this and costs ect ...:)

You can call her whatever you want, except on her school reports, passport and hospital records she would still have to use the name on her birth certificate.
If you want to do this legally then it will be done by deed poll.

just looked it up , you can re-regegister birth - just need to go and pick some forms up, perfecto :)

You can do it online by deed poll for £10 x

deed poll at magistrates court is £25.00

ive had mine done there. you will need a copy of her birth certificate. but it will always say her original surname on her birth certificate but legally she will be able to use your surname. Also it is only valid if both parts are there, they will staple the deed poll certificate to the birth certificate these two documents will in effect become one.

You can do it online by deed poll for £10 x


can i have a link to this info please? as i belive it needs to be signed, stamped and witnessed by a magistrate to make it legal it is a legal document after all, hence it needing to be done at the magistrates

if the parents arent married and the father wasnt there at register of birth, the father can be added anytime and surname changed free of charge

You can call her whatever you want, except on her school reports, passport and hospital records she would still have to use the name on her birth certificate.
If you want to do this legally then it will be done by deed poll.

We changed my son's name by deed poll when he was three giving him a double-barreled surname keeping the name on his birth certificate and adding my married surname on the end. However at school he was known by my married surname as the school accepted 'known as' names until he started studying for his GCSEs. For hospital records and passport he uses his double barreled name. To make it more interesting my son's bank accounts are in his doubled barreled name but his actual signature is just my married surname which is perfectly legal but raises some eye brows.

can i have a link to this info please? as i belive it needs to be signed, stamped and witnessed by a magistrate to make it legal it is a legal document after all, hence it needing to be done at the magistrates

I remember seeing it a while ago on TV where a bloke changed his surname online and it was completely legal (no link because I can't remember the programme it was something like Dispatches/Panorama). Although it was a test to see if he'd pass a CRB check or something similar and not to do with children's name changes. It did seem much cheaper online than using a solicitor (about £15 iirc) and it surprised me that it was legal as up till then I'd always thought doing it online was a con.

cant it just be done by deed poll, i know if your not the father but want to change a childs surname you have to adopt the child...im not sure on this mate
thats untrue, you do not need to adopt if your not the father but if the father is on the birth cert you may need permission, if there is no father info on birth cert or you are the father and your on it you can do it online through deed pool fill in all the info and pay with credit/debit card, then post written consent from the mother (father if on birth cert) along with a origional birth cert and id for the mother i did this couple years back for my daughter when i got married

http://www.deedpoll.org.uk/