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Adult Name Change When an adult wishes to legally change their name, a petition needs to be filed with the Court of Common Pleas; there is a filing fee of $333.23 that may be waived by the Court if you can prove you are low-income, however, there are usually publication fees that cannot be waived by the Court.

File Forms Visit your local probate court and file the Petition and the certified copy of your birth certificate with the court clerk (you may be asked to show a piece of state-issued ID as well). The clerk will ask you to pay the fee, which is $150.

Name change actions can take anywhere from a day, to six (6) months (sometimes even longer). The time it takes for such action to be ordered/decreed varies not only from county to county, but sometimes from courthouse to courthouse as well.

Court shall seal the file. In all cases filed under this paragraph, whether or not the name change petition is granted, there shall be no public access to any court record of the name change petition, proceeding or order, unless the name change is granted but the file is not sealed.

You must have a Petition and Order ready to be presented to the judge. The forms can be found at Forms page or can be obtained from the Clerk's Office. It costs $166.50 to do a name change. You DO NOT have to have an attorney.

Name change actions can take anywhere from a day to six (6) months (sometimes even longer). The time it takes for such action to be ordered/decreed varies not only from county to county, but sometimes from courthouse to courthouse as well.

The Petitioner must attach to the Petition a certified copy of their birth certificate as well as an official set of the Petitioner's fingerprints. The Prothonotary/Clerk shall transmit the fingerprints along with a copy of the Petition to Change Name to the Pennsylvania State Police Central Repository.