All childhood records show the name hes used for 56 years, only after new laws that he had to go get a certified birth copy and not the one his mother gave him did he find the descrepency. Mothers deceased and never knew father, so no way to find out why she would have erased his real last name and registered him even for school as a kid with this other name. Hes always just used the birth certificate that his mother had which was a photo copy. Seems she originally used her last name, but gave him sorta 2 middle names: then for whatever reason erased her last name from his and hes been using the names left because thats what was listed and hes always been recognized as even in grade school. example- John david martin smith....she erased the smith
and enrolled him as John david martin. Hes never known any other name, I married him as John david martin...28 years later we find the situation. We are both in shock. Is he legally Martin or Smith? Can we just drop the smith and be ok ?
2006-11-06
01:59:56
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Tammy C
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