California Code of Regulations › Title 2 - Administration › Division 7 - Secretary of State › Chapter 11 - Safe at Home Confidential Address Program › Section 22101.3 - Confidential Name Changes Under Chapter 3.1 (Commencing with Section 6205) of Division 7, Title 1 of the Government Code

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Prior to petitioning the Superior Court
				of the county in which a Program Participant resides, a Safe at Home Program
				Participant seeking a confidential name change pursuant to subdivision (b),
				section
				1277
				of the Code of Civil Procedure shall complete and submit to the Safe at Home
				program a Confidential Notice of Intent of Name Change Form, SAH-6 (2019),
				hereby incorporated by reference.
(b) The Confidential Notice of Intent of Name
				Change Form shall be completed by the Program Participant seeking a name change
				and shall include their current legal name and the name they intend to adopt as
				their new legal name resulting from the confidential name change process. Safe
				at Home shall make no assessment about the legality or the appropriateness of
				the proposed new legal name.
(c)
				Only the guardian or conservator of a minor child or incapacitated adult who is
				a Program Participant shall complete the Confidential Notice of Intent of Name
				Change Form on behalf of the minor child or incapacitated adult Program
				Participant.
(d) A separate
				Confidential Notice of Intent of Name Change Form shall be filed for each minor
				child or incapacitated adult whose name a guardian or conservator seeks to
				change.
(e) After Safe at Home has
				received a completed Confidential Notice of Intent of Name Change Form, the
				program shall provide the requesting Program Participant with documentation to
				substantiate the Program Participant's enrollment in the Safe at Home
				program.
(f) Once a Program
				Participant's legal name has been changed by the Superior Court, the Program
				Participant's new legal name will be the name indicated on the most recently
				completed Confidential Notice of Intent of Name Change Form sent to Safe at
				Home by the Program Participant.
(g) Once a Program Participant's name has
				been legally changed by the Superior Court and Safe at Home has received a
				certified copy of the court decree changing the name, Safe at Home shall update
				program records to reflect the new legal name and shall accept mail for the
				Program Participant addressed to their new legal name. Safe at Home shall
				continue to accept mail sent to the Program Participant in his or her previous
				legal name for 90 days from the date of receipt of the court decree, after
				which, Safe at Home shall only accept mail addressed to the current legal name
				on file.
(h) The Confidential
				Notice of Intent of Name Change Form, along with the court decree officially
				changing the Program Participant's legal name, shall remain on file with the
				Safe at Home Program consistent with section
				6206.4 of
				the Government Code.
1. New section
				  filed 3-3-2020; operative 3-3-2020 pursuant to Government Code section
				  11343.4(b)(3)
				  (Register 2020, No. 10).
Note: Authority cited: Section
					 6209,
					 Government Code; Reference: Sections
					 6206.4 and
					 6209.5,
					 Government Code.