For DU legal eagles: If you or I tried to submit documents using pseudonyms, signing

[LuckyLib]

those documents with signatures that are fake, is that acceptable in a court of law? I imagine asking an attorney to do so, and being told "That's not how it works."

[aikoaiko]

1. I asked my brother, a lawyer, this question several years ago.

His answer was that you can call yourself whatever you want as long as you're not defrauding someone with the name you choose.

I don't know if he was correct, but that's what I got.

[Ms. Toad]

3. That works in jurisdictions which recognizes common law name changes. n/t

[Ms. Toad]

2. 1. John/Jane Doe complaints

2. Any mark you make, intending it to be your signature, is a legally sufficient signature
3. If you're talking about the Stormy Daniels' matter, there was a side letter that defined each of the pseudonyms in the contract.

[LuckyLib]

8. So what's the point? The legal papers are not filed under Daniels or Trump?

[marble falls]

5. Actually if everybody were in on all the details, and there was a "meeting of the minds"....

that was a contract.

[procon]

6. Writers, celebrities and other well known people often use pseudonyms.

There are any number of valid reasons why, and contracts are written with a clause stipulating the actual legal identity and the name of the public persona. As long as the nom de plume is not an intent to defraud or engage in some sort of illegal activity, its fine.

[MiniMe]

7. David Dennison never signed the agreement