Confused
So … I was doing a search in our online legal resource to try and see if I could find the Secretary of State’s internal procedure manual for handling requests to change the sex marker on one’s driver’s license. My Google search for my state’s procedures resulted in conflicting informatiooooon. And I wanted to try and figure out if I should include a request that, in addition to my name being changed, the SoS also be ordered to change my sex marker on my drivers license, thinking that might make things a tad easier … heck, why not at least ask, ya know?
Anyways … along the way … I stumbled across this administrative rule:
R 421.1102 Tense, gender, and number.
Rule 102. For the purposes of these rules, the present tense includes the past and future tenses, and the future, the present; each gender includes the other 2 genders; and the singular includes the plural and the plural, the singular.
“the other 2 genders” …. huh?
Oh … by the way … if you’re attempting to implement changing your name without a court order in my state, here’s a recent attorney general’s opinioooon on the topic … in a nut shell, basically … it means that an affidavit alone will be sufficient if you’re lucky enough to get a cooperative secretary of state counter worker … if not, you need some sort of “acceptable” proof that you’ve been using your name for at least six months (stuff like credit cards, copies of tax returns, insurance policy (yeah right), employee id, student id, affidavit from your doctor, therapist, blah, blah, blah) …
Come on, baby … mamma need’s a new pair of cfm’s … let’s roll them there dice !!!! Let me get the nice counter worker !! 🙂
Oh yeah, and none of the above is legal advice or anything like that … it’s just me sharing what I’ve found on the internet ! 🙂
Both names…. Bummer.
You might be in a bit of an awkward situation if you were changing your name here in Oregon, Amy. Here the public notice is acheived by posting a notice on a bulletin board–right in the courthouse!!!
Beth
Yuhp … old name and new name are both required. There is the similar options with a small distribution county paper, but generally attorneys review those too as it is exactly what people expect people to do when publishing notice.
As I recall, my name change was published in a small circulation county paper and it only listed my old name and not my new name. Even if someone had noticed, they wouldn’t have guessed the reason I was changing it. Does your State require listing the new name?
Kewl !!! And now I’ve learned my new thing for the day !! Thanks for help Skylark !! 🙂
i believe that in terms of grammar, the neutral gender counts as one. in english this neutral gender shows up in awkward faux-plural constructions that we are generally instructed against, such as “when this person appears here, _they_ do that.” and many people find the more formal “one”, as in “one may or may not agree”, too stuffy for common use.