Name Change
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Are there any
instances when you cannot change your name?
You acknowledge that LAWCHEK™ owns all rights, title, and interest, including and without limitation all intellectual property rights (as defined below), in and to the forms and information (including LAWCHEK™ website and brand features, including implied licenses, and excluding items licensed by LAWCHEK™ from third parties and excluding any third party property), and that you will not acquire any rights, title, or interest in or to the legal forms or information or copyrights, except as expressly set forth on the site in regard to using the legal forms for information gathering purposes. You will not modify, adapt, translate, prepare derivative works from, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise attempt to derive source copyright from any LAWCHEK™ services or documentation, or create or attempt to create a substitute or similar service or product through use of or access to this website or proprietary information related thereto. You will not remove, obscure, or alter the LAWCHEK™ copyright notice, brand features, or other proprietary rights notices affixed to or contained within any LAWCHEK™ services, software, or documentation (including without limitation the use of LAWCHEK™ brand features with online legal forms, web hosting services, website html codes, or LAWCHEK™ website copyrights, as applicable). "Intellectual Property Rights" means any and all rights existing from time-to-time under patent law, copyright law, semiconductor chip protection law, moral rights law, trade secret law, trademark law, unfair competition law, publicity rights law, privacy rights law, and any and all other proprietary rights, as well as, any and all applications, renewals, extensions, restorations, and re-instatements thereof, now or hereafter in force and effect worldwide.
This is not a substitute for legal advice. An attorney must be consulted. To find an attorney in your area, please CLICK HERE.
Are there any
instances when you cannot change your name?
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A name change cannot be done for fraudulent purposes. Some examples of instances in which you cannot change your name include, but are not limited to, the following:
1)
You cannot change your name to avoid bankruptcy.
2)
You cannot change your name if you have been convicted of a felony.
3)
You cannot change your name if you have a lien or financial
judgment filed against you.
4)
You
cannot change your name with the intent to interfere with the Trademark
of a legitimate business.
5)
You
cannot change your name to intentionally confuse people, such as using
symbols or numbers.
6)
You
cannot change your name to an obscenity or a racial slur, depending upon
the state in which you live.
7)
You
cannot change your name to another individual’s name with the intent
to deceive others or the public. For example, you cannot change your
name to that of a celebrity in order to profit from the likeness.
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This is not a substitute for legal
advice. An
attorney must be consulted.
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