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Canadian Online Marriage Name Change Service Launches

Posted by Victoria Revay on Thu, April 2, 2009 5:41 PM · Filed under Vancouver , Web 2.0, Web Development, Digital Media, Women & Tech · 5 Comments

Vancouver-based I'm a Mrs is an online name change service for frustrated brides and would-be brides that want to save time. The Vancouver-based name change service is the first of its kind in Canada and industry insiders are paying attention to it. The concept is very useful:

Rather than venture to a government office for forms, and then search and call various other organizations, I’m a Mrs. takes care of all of the above in one easy stop.

Co-founded by Claire Lamont and Jo-Anne Stayner, there are currently two packages available: a standard and a premium.

The Standard package which includes access to all of the necessary government forms, as well as access to three additional forms of your choice from our database. The other option is the Premium package which includes access to all forms in the database including government, banks, credit cards, utility companies, and mortgage companies.

I've run this by some married and would-be married friends and they're loving the idea. Thoughts?

5 Comments

technobee said on Thu, April 2, 2009 at 9:26 PM

rilliant idea! I haven't switched to my married name because of the hassle and number of places that I need to change it - but would be even better if it was all automated.

May Chu said on Sat, April 11, 2009 at 8:57 PM

My opinion on this matter is:

Don't bother changing your name. Or get your husband to take your name. It is the 21 century after all...

Greg Lezama said on Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:26 PM

I'm an American living in new York and my x wife is Canadian living in Vancouver. We were divorced 2 years ago and she's still using my last name. What can I do from NY to get her to change it back to her surname?

Thanks.

Varun Mathur said on Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:14 PM

@Greg: I don't think you can do anything to get your ex-wife to stop her from using "your" last name - its her free will! A last name is not a trademark - you don't own the rights to it and can't control who uses it and in what way. If it really bothers you that you and your ex-wife have the same last name, maybe you can change yours ? :P

Greg Lezama said on Fri, May 15, 2009 at 7:33 PM

@ Varun: Thanks for your "input". However, I hired an attorney and it's being taken care of. Turns out I can do something about it after all...so get your facts straight aaight.

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