“And did Hussein legally change his name birth name in college from Barry Soetoro to B Hussein Obama? “
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Cite please?
If Hussein Obama legally changed his name (from) Soetoro, how in the world, could his BC say ... Obama?
Barry was born Obama. Soetoro was the name of his stepfather who his mom married when Barry was two. He may have been known as Soetoro in Indonesia to make things simpler, but his birth name would not have changed
I don’t think the name “Soetero” ever enters the picture until sometime after he is 6 y.o. and living in Indonesia. That is the name of the man in Indonesia his mother married, and Barry was registered in a school there under that name. But he could not have been born under that name unless 18 y.o. “Stanley” Dunham (his mother) had already been involved with Soetero back in 1961. I’ve not seen anything to suggest that could be the case (though with his convoluted case who knows?).
I'd guess much the same way my daughter's BC shows me as her father, and gives her last name as the same as mine, even though I didn't meet her mom until she was 3 years old.
Court order, part of the adoption proceedings.
Birth certificates can be amended in cases of adoption. However I don't think that his name was probably ever legally, in the sense of getting a new BC, Soetoro. He may have registered for school under that name, but absent an intent to defraud, that's not generally illegal. I know our oldest nephew (9 months older than our older daughter) went to school under his stepfather's name, but has since gone back to his birth name (under which he's a Sergeant First Class (E-7) in the Army Reserve, and currently on a year of so of active duty, his second of the War On Terror. The first he volunteered for and was all over Southwest Asia, this second time his unit was called up, but only to Ft. Sill to train basic trainees) The stepdaughter of my youngest brother in law, who just happens to be visiting us right now, goes to school under her stepfather's last name, even though she's not been adopted (The Cad!, she's been his stepdaughter for over 10 years and she has no contact at all with her natural father somewhere in the former Soviet Republics)