Changing legal name

[Lands of Rain]

hey

we're thinking of changing our legal name... basically some of us have issues with our legal name, and none of us really relate to it. most of our friends call us 'rain' and we all answer to that, so mostly we'd just prefer that to be our legal name.

problem is even tho our work/professional person doesn't identify with our legal name... like she has her own name which is different... she wants to be able to continue working under the current legal name because people know it and whatever, so our idea is to ditch our middle name, which is our m*thers name, and then either add rain as a middle name, or else make rain our first name and then the legal first name our middle name and keep the same family name. probably the first will happen.

anyway, we were thinking other peoples here must have thought about this before? has anyone done it.. changed your legal name... how did it work out for you?

sam