Our family name is Yaginuma - 柳沼

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This morning, we went down to the San Francisco court house to have a judge (or actually a commissioner) hear our case. It was pretty straight-forward, but all new to me. We had to raise our right hand and swear we were telling the truth, and answer into the microphone "yes" twice (and were told if we didn't answer "yes" there would be more questions for us). Basically, we verbally spelled out our old names, and the judge verbalized the spelling of our new names for recording purposes.

I was able to video Dav's turn, and you can hear the judge spelling Dav, Impossible, Yaginuma. She didn't bat an eye. And then it was over!

So we are now officially and legally the Yaginumas - 柳沼. This post is very much for Gargle who will grow up as a Yaginuma, and by reading this can get a sense of how Dav and I actually adopted this family name for ourselves, and how it's an exciting new chapter for us.

Comments

[harold]

Ah, room 218. I remember it like it was yesterday. Jenny and I did the same routine, only the commissioner made some odd comment about Jenny's birthplace that went completely over our heads ("Go Scarlet Knights.") Thanks for documenting this. We will probably need to point our children to this blog post as well, since we didn't think to record the momentous occasion. Now the fun of changing all your official documents! Wheeeee...