TexasCHLforum.com

Has anyone ever heard of someone whose legal name had the suffix "Sr."?

I think that would be Jr.'s pappy.

Yes, but as Jr would be unlikely to have been born at the time Sr was Christened, how would they know?

chartreuse wrote:Yes, but as Jr would be unlikely to have been born at the time Sr was Christened, how would they know?

That's the way I was thinking. I've heard of people [img]referring[/img] to someone as So and So, Sr., but cannot imaging anyone actually having Sr. on their birth certificate or going to the trouble of legally adding it to their name when Jr. was born.

Could it be short for Senor, like Mr. is for Mister?

Just be careful how you use the 'Jr' (Junior) and 'Sr' (Senior) as they will follow you the rest of your life.

At birth, I was a Jr. After my father passed in 1956, I no longer felt the need to add the 'Jr', as there was no longer a 'Sr', after my name when writing my signature.

I caught hell from the State of Texas just last week for not using it on an official document.

Just think about this. My dad has been gone for over 50 years, and while I am proud I was named after him, many people look at you funny when you ad this suffix on your name.

I'm the father of a Jr. and therefore a Sr. My son has always used his middle name, but when he reached the age where he started entering contracts that had his full name and my address, I added Sr. to the end of my name. No legal name change, I just started doing it in hopes of disambiguating the two of us in any records.

[soapbox]
My advice to anybody that is contemplating naming a beautiful new son with the same name as you - DON'T. Its almost impossible to get consistent use of Sr. and Jr. in records. You can do your best, but ultimately have no control over what your son does later in life. My son is a fine young man and I'm very proud of him, but he didn't always pay his cell phone (and other) bills on any kind of schedule. I just tried to forward his W2 to his new address up north and it ended up back in my mailbox... In our current society, it just isn't worth it.
[/soapbox]

davidtx wrote:I'm the father of a Jr. and therefore a Sr. My son has always used his middle name, but when he reached the age where he started entering contracts that had his full name and my address, I added Sr. to the end of my name. No legal name change, I just started doing it in hopes of disambiguating the two of us in any records.

[soapbox]
My advice to anybody that is contemplating naming a beautiful new son with the same name as you - DON'T. Its almost impossible to get consistent use of Sr. and Jr. in records. You can do your best, but ultimately have no control over what your son does later in life. My son is a fine young man and I'm very proud of him, but he didn't always pay his cell phone (and other) bills on any kind of schedule. I just tried to forward his W2 to his new address up north and it ended up back in my mailbox... In our current society, it just isn't worth it.
[/soapbox]

I'm betting that unofficially adding "Sr." will cause as much, if not more, trouble (especially when you pass). My son is a III'd and we have never had any trouble. My dad has never used "Sr." as it is not his legal name. I suspect that, except for a very few that have actually had a legal name chage done to add "Sr.", there really aren't any with "Sr." on their driver's license of CHL. Yeah, a couple of my son's creditors have called but those are opportunities to make money for me if the same one calls more than once after being instructed no to call . This article explains it pretty well: http://www.dallasobserver.com/2010-01-2 ... sues-them/ It may have some questionable language toward the end. Be forewarned.

The reason I brought it up is that the DMV (TxDOT actually, I think) made a typo and put "Sr." on some title work recently. Because it had to exactly match my driver's license (which it obviously didn't), the County Tax office rejected my paperwork.

ninemm wrote:[SNIP]

I'm betting that unofficially adding "Sr." will cause as much, if not more, trouble (especially when you pass). My son is a III'd and we have never had any trouble. My dad has never used "Sr." as it is not his legal name. I suspect that, except for a very few that have actually had a legal name chage done to add "Sr.", there really aren't any with "Sr." on their driver's license of CHL.

My driver's license has SR on it, my CHL doesn't. I just checked my copy of the CHL app and its my mistake.

davidtx wrote:

ninemm wrote:[SNIP]

I'm betting that unofficially adding "Sr." will cause as much, if not more, trouble (especially when you pass). My son is a III'd and we have never had any trouble. My dad has never used "Sr." as it is not his legal name. I suspect that, except for a very few that have actually had a legal name chage done to add "Sr.", there really aren't any with "Sr." on their driver's license of CHL.

My driver's license has SR on it, my CHL doesn't. I just checked my copy of the CHL app and its my mistake.

That might not be good.