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I am 20 years old. As a child my mother married a man and he adopted me. My name then changed from Deshane to Greene. Now here I am and My school papers are all wrong. I graduated with the last name Deshane, because my mother could not provide proof with the change of my last name. :grr: KNow I cannot file My taxes because my number in the Social Security Database was never changed over to match my new last name, and I cannot apply for College. :grr: I dont know haw to do this, but I need the Adoption records... Or something saying my last name is not Dehane anymore! Can anyone help me??
~Letti
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when you were legally adopted you should have been issued a new birth certificate. Also there should be an adoption decree. With those two items you can go to soc security office and get name changed for social security card.
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If your adoption records are lost, you should be able to contact the county in which the legal proceedings took place and get those records. If they are unavailable or too expensive, you should be able to change your last name to whatever you want it to be, now that you are an adult. I'm not entirely sure how that works, but I know that it is not legally complicated nor is it expensive. I have a few friends who have done this for various reasons (honoring an ancestor, ditching damaging past relationship baggage, privacy protection, etc...) Good luck
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