If you were born in Bleckley County, Georgia, in the late 1930s, there’s a pretty good chance that your birth certificate has the wrong name on it.

I’m not from Bleckley County, or even Georgia, and I wasn’t born in the 1930s. So, I was pretty dumbfounded when I received a client file on such a matter from Philadelphia VIP, an organization that matches low-income city residents facing civil legal issues with attorneys willing to lend some discrete pro bono hours. Like addressing a name change from decades ago, which most efficiently requires a lawyer.

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