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Your legal name, your username, and your handle are three separate things. When your legal name changes, your username and handle do not need to be updated and nothing about your account needs to change except for updating the fields for your actual name.

To update the site's record with your new legal name, go to this page:
My Account/Account Settings and click on Personal Information
https://www.writing.com/main/my_account.php?action=ea_form&type=personal

Fill out the first and last name fields.
Check that the offsite email and birthdate fields are correct.
Check or fill out any of the other optional fields on the page as you wish.
Then SCROLL DOWN TO THE BOTTOM and click on Submit Changes to store the updated information.

When you get a successful store message, you're done.



If you want to change your username, that is possible and does cost GPs. That happens on this page, and you should read all the information first:
https://www.writing.com/main/my_account.php?action=ea_form&type=change_username

Again, until you click to Submit Changes at the bottom of the form, nothing happens. It may take a few minutes for the site to process this operation.






Hope that helps.

Northernwrites___

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