This sequence comes from the same verified data as the kit: every fee and deadline in it was read from the Colorado agency page that publishes it. Last verification in this sequence: 2026-08-31. Requirements are re-checked weekly.
Do Social Security first, or you'll do the DMV twice: licensing agencies verify the name against your Social Security record, so updating them out of order means a second trip. The 8 steps below are the Colorado sequence in the order the agencies themselves require. The first is open in full; the rest are in the kit.
Order certified copies of your marriage certificate before you start anything else.
Every agency below either keeps a certified copy or inspects one. Ordering them first is what keeps the rest of this from stalling for weeks in the middle — running out of copies mid-chain is the classic multi-week delay.
Fee: No fee is printed because the state office is not the counter that issues this document. CDPHE sells birth and death "certificates" but only a "Verification of a marriage, civil union, or dissolution (divorce)", and states that "Our Office of the State Registrar can provide verification for ceremonial marriages that have been registered with the state." The certified marriage certificate a DMV clerk accepts comes from the county clerk and recorder, whose fee that county sets; a certified divorce decree comes from the district court clerk. Two CDPHE fee URLs were tried on 2026-08-31 and both returned HTTP 404, and the verification is the wrong document for this packet in any case.
Source: cdphe.colorado.gov — read 2026-08-31.
What to do here, the fee, the deadline and the official source are in the kit.
What to do here, the fee, the deadline and the official source are in the kit.
What to do here, the fee, the deadline and the official source are in the kit.
What to do here, the fee, the deadline and the official source are in the kit.
What to do here, the fee, the deadline and the official source are in the kit.
What to do here, the fee, the deadline and the official source are in the kit.
What to do here, the fee, the deadline and the official source are in the kit.
7 more steps — each with what to do, the fee, the deadline and the official source — plus your forms filled in, the documents list for every visit, and the certified-copy count, in the kit.
At least $1 in agency fees across the 8 steps; 5 of the offices set their own fee, and the kit says which. The kit is a single $19 on top of that, once.
Yes. 1 of the 8 steps carries a hard published deadline, at Colorado Department of Revenue — Division of Motor Vehicles. The kit states each deadline and puts it on your timeline.
Each agency publishes its own list of acceptable documents, and several overlap. The kit lays them out per visit, tells you how many certified copies to order so you are not couriering one original between agencies, and fills in the official forms for you.
The kit does the rest. Answer seven short steps and get this sequence with your forms filled in wherever the agency's form allows it, the documents list for each visit, the certified-copy count, and the after-the-ID checklist — as one typeset PDF.
Start the QuestionsChanging your name after a divorce instead? Read the Colorado divorce guide, or browse every state's guide.
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