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Originally Posted by GreyWolf
In Canada, you may use ANY name you wish... under certain conditions. You can't be trying to defraud anyone. You can't use it in legal proceedings in court. You must use your legal name, or an accepted derivative thereof, in all dealings with the government. I believe, but am not 100% sure, that you can use your "alias" on a legal contract, again, so long as there is no intent to defraud.
I had an acquaintance who used an alias so long that when he was busted for drug dealing, the charges were read using his legal name, but were qualified by "also known as <alias>". The questioning was exclusively Mr. Alias by the defense, and Mr. Legal Name by the prosecution. There were no objections to that. |
Well, I'm not quite sure, but I do recall finding and researching this topic about a month ago, and I thought that this was legal (in special circumstances) to do so in the US as well. I was reading terms of employment documents, and it specifically addressed the issue of aliases and using a name that is not the one given to you at birth (the shame about it is I don't recall much of anything of the
legalese behind it). There was just a simple matter of stating that you-1 is the one and the same as you-2, and you could not be charged with a crime, unless its used for the purpose of defraudment.
I'd err on the side of caution and seek to change your name via court or SS offices if you are going to be using the alias in any other situation than attending neighborhood mixers. But if the latter is the case, then this is for you:
