Legally changing your name is a pain in the **** (and expensive...$450 per person) if you don't do it when getting married or divorced! My stupid H waited all these years to change his last name to his mother's maiden name (his dad walked out on him when he was a baby). Now since we both want his mother's maiden name, we have to go through the court. We have to publish our name change in a newspaper for 4 weeks and then have a hearing! My anxiety is through the roof! We just filed the paperwork today. Not fun. Tomorrow... contact the newspaper. Oh, and they were so nice and set our court date for December 26th.