LGBTQ Rights

Important information on legal protections and rights for the LGBTQ community, empowering you to live securely.

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Name Change FAQs:

  • You must have lived in FL for 6 months before applying for a legal name change.
  • There is a filing fee waiver for the $400 filing fee (Affadavit of Determination of Civil Indigent Status). If your income is too high to get a waiver, you can ask for a payment plan.
  • Your name won’t automatically be changed on all your documents. Use your court ordered document to change your name everywhere else it appears.
  • Surgery is NOT required to change your gender marker and a court order is NOT required to change your gender marker.