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amigobuddy

Jan 31, 2011, 5:27 PM

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Mexican Will Beneficiary

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Hello -

My father (Mexican citizen) has recently created a will for his property on the baja. In that will, he was told by the local lawyer that my name should be logged as first + father's last name + mother's last name and is how the will was filled out. I am working through my naturalization process and when my birth certificate was translated into Spanish, I was told that my name could not be listed first + father's last name + mother's last name since my US birth certificate does not show this. My US birth certificate shows it as first + father's last name (no middle name) and is what my naturalization documents will show.

Does anyone know if there will be an issue with my father's will? Should my father have his will be updated to reflect the proper mexican recording of my name (First + last name).

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Dave

mazbook1

Feb 1, 2011, 2:34 PM

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Re: [amigobuddy] Mexican Will Beneficiary

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Definitely! In México, ALL legal documents require your name as per your passport (if a foreigner) or as your carta de naturalización if a naturalized citizen (your name is also this way on your credential para votar and your Mexican pasaporte).

In years past SRE would arbitrarily assign your mother's maiden name to your legal name as the apellido materno, more-or-less on your say-so of what it was, since it wasn't normally in ANY legal document from outside México. Now it's the regulation that this can no longer be done, as normally a norteamericano doesn't have ANY legal document (passport, birth certificate, etc.) that PROVES the mother's maiden apellido paterno. I had to redo ALL of my papers when I applied for naturalization (in 2007), as I had mistakenly taken the advice of others who had become naturalized several years before, and filled in all the blanks for apellido materno with my mother's maiden family name.