While Shiloh Jolie’s looks are a blend of her parents, the more I look through photos of Shiloh, I’m really starting to see the strong Jolie genes coming through. Especially in her eyes and the way she carries herself. While the Pitt genes are there too, Shiloh really is going to end up more of a Jolie. That’s what she wants too – she identifies more as a Jolie and she wants to distance herself in every way from Brad Pitt. On her 18th birthday, she filed the legal paperwork to drop “Pitt” from her surname. The name change is slow-going and revealing lots of weird quirks in California law. Shiloh had to announce her name change in a local paper, and her lawyer had to come out and ask people to stop sensationalizing that. Now there’s something else… Shiloh needed to complete a background check. It was not completed in time, so the name change hearing was delayed.
Shiloh Jolie-Pitt’s name change hearing has been postponed.
The teenager, who first filed to drop “Pitt” from her last name in May on her 18th birthday, will have to wait a little longer to change her name after a court delayed her hearing due to an incomplete background check.
“Unfortunately, the court was unable to complete the background check ahead of today’s hearing, so the hearing was rescheduled for August 19,” Jolie-Pitt’s lawyer Peter Levine said in a statement obtained by PEOPLE.
“Everyone undergoing a name-change request needs to have a background check conducted by the court clerk, and because of clerical error, Shiloh’s hearing has been continued to a new date.”
The Los Angeles Superior Court did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
I understand why a person petitioning for a name change would need a background check, especially if it’s an older adult with a lengthy financial/credit history. But this kid *just* turned 18 years old. I doubt the background check is going to reveal much of anything beyond “she’s 18 and still on her mom’s health care plan.” It’s definitely odd. Quick question for the California ladies… if you changed your name when you got married, did you have to jump through all of these f–king hoops?
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I volunteer with our local trans youth organization, and this is completely normal for name changes via the court.
It’s a lot of hoops to jump through when you consider that she just was to *drop* part of her second name. It’s not like it’s a huge big change.
I’d imagine that this is all costing quite a bit of money. Not a problem for Shiloh, but I feel for anyone else trying to navigate a similar system, especially when trying to cut ties with an abuser.
I dealt with business name changes in CA, you have to jump thru all of the same hoops. I imagine it’s going to get more difficult with less newspaper printings as the years go on.
The system is set up for married name changes, it has hoops but its a standard request. Update social security card, driver’s license, credit and other financial accounts, marriage certificate will be sufficient documentation. I dropped my legal first name (not in California) and it was the same as Shiloh’s, run public notice for objections, a month to 6 weeks from filing to finalized. Other than the background check glitch, her’s seems pretty standard and mine cost a few (4-ish) hundred dollars, but it can be done without an attorney for less. Filing fees vary by jurisdiction, but in the scope of legal bills I don’t think this procedure is particularly significant. And then you still have to do the same hoops as a person with a new marriage certificate.
I had the worst time changing my name after i got married in California b/c they didn’t recognize my marriage certificate from DC. I basically had to wait until i got my passport changed (b/c the passport office had no issues) and come back with the new passport.
My husband and I changed our names (in CA) when we got married (our married last names are both our last names, hyphenated.)
When you change your name for marriage, you don’t have to go through any of these hoops, so long as:
1) you do it at the time you are filing/applying for your marriage license and include the new name on that license; and
2) the new name comes from part of the current names (i.e. one spouse taking the other’s existing name; or hyphenating existing names, as we both did; or a new combo from letters in the current names [for example, I’ve had friends who created a portmanteau from each of their “maiden” last names, rather than hyphenate two full names]).
If you are taking a fully new last name (for example, what JD and Usha Vance did when they got married, when they both changed their names to his grandparent’s last name or whatever – who knew that random trivia would be a useful example!?), and/or decide to take your spouse’s name sometime after the wedding, you would have to go through a standard name change process like Shiloh is doing.
But it sounds like the court f’ed it up, and not Shiloh?
While annoying, this is completely reasonable to me. I doubt many people change their name for nefarious reasons, but some certainly do. This is standard procedure to prevent that. DUIs, assault, trespassing, theft, drug possession, criminal mischief etc – plenty of individuals, including minors, are charged with those crimes every year. I doubt most of those would affect ability to get a legal name change, but a background check is necessary. It just is what it is.
I don’t see Brad in Shiloh at all. I’ve always thought that she’s Angelina’s mini me. She’s gorgeous.
I changed back to my birth name a few years after my divorce. There was a paper mix up at the time of the divorce and I just didn’t follow through.
I remember having to place the announcement in a paper and going to the court house to show proof. I don’t remember much about a background check, but I do vaguely remember them mentioning that they have to make sure I’m not changing my name because of past criminal behavior, so I’m assuming that means a background check.
Then I had to carry around a notarized paper showing my name change for a year or so as proof in case there was confusion for whatever reason.
It was much more time consuming and difficult to change back to my birth name than to change my name when I got married. So when I married again I kept my birth name. I’m never changing it again.
California name change law (procedure) doesn’t apply to marriage. You don’t have to do any kind of announcement or legal process aside from the marriage license + officiant signature.
I’ve done two name changes in CA. Yes, all of this is completely standard.
Hopefully she keeps them away from their out of touch grandpa too.