What If You Lose Your Deed Poll?
What if you lose your Deed Poll? In our lifetimes, we’re pretty sure that every single person accumulates an unruly amount of documents, letters and even emails. With so many pieces of paper and online documents in so many different places, you can easily see how someone could misplace or lose something, no matter how important it may be. This is even true for Deed Polls, especially if they were ordered quite some time ago.
If you have lost your Deed Poll and need it, there is no need to worry! You’ll be happy to know that most Deed Poll services (if not all) offer a service that enables you to reorder a Deed Poll, so that you can never be without it. However, there is one small caveat, you do have to know or have a recollection of the company that you used to order your Deed Poll with. For some people this may not be an issue, but for others, I’m sure this will sound some alarm bells. If you don’t remember the company that you ordered your Deed Poll with, there is still a chance that the name can be recovered, don’t lose hope just yet!
Tips for Finding Your Deed Poll Company
Here are a few helpful tips to help find the name of the company:
Search for key terms like “Deed Poll” or “Change of name” in the search function of your emails – you may be able to find an email from the company that you dealt with
Search through your documents – this may seem like a hassle, but you may be able to find documents from the company that you dealt with or documents related to your name changing process
If you can’t find the name of the company, you still have the chance to recover your Deed Poll. If you happen to have gotten your Deed Poll executed, at the time, you should have given your witness a copy of the document. If this is the case, you could try contacting your witness and asking them if they still have a copy of the document. If they do still have a copy of the document, then you’re in luck! If they don’t have a copy then you could always ask them if they remember the company that you used for your Deed Poll, or if they have any related documents.
Recovering Your Deed Poll Without the Company Name
If all else fails, there are 2 more options that are available to you.
First, you can always contact all the popular Deed Poll services that appear when you search for “Deed Poll” on the internet. You can ring or message each service, asking if they have any record of your Deed Poll. If you are successful, then that is great, but there are a large number of Deed Poll services online and if the calls cost, then the price of asking companies can soon mount up and may not be worth it in the end.
The final suggestion is that you order a brand new Deed Poll that is exactly the same as the last. Unfortunately, this will be more expensive than if you could simply reorder the Deed Poll, but there may be no other option
If you happen to have drafted your Deed Poll yourself, but don’t have a backup of the document, there are still ways that you may be able to recover your document.
Search your emails – searching for key terms like “Deed Poll” or “Change of name” are a great way to find emails related to your name change document
If you notified your employer, you can ask them for a copy
If you had your Deed Poll executed, then the witness should have a copy of the document – if the witness was a solicitor, they are very likely to still have a copy of your Deed Poll
So, if you lose your Deed Poll, there are quite a few ways for you to recover it, so don’t worry. Everyone loses things sometimes.
