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Originally Posted by Xose
That's a tough one. I've no idea if they would take a French ID card given that your NIE would show you as a British National...not French. Your options are limited as I'm sure they won't accept a passport with one name and issue a Padron or NIE with another.
In terms of officialdom here, your passport ID's you, that's you (married name, mayden name etc is not a Spanish thing) your name is what your official ID says it is, and today, in Spain, that's your passport. Padron and NIE will reflect this. No one is to say that your name is different - why should it be, Ivana Trump is divorced but remains Ivana Trump. 
If you, one day, go down the route of getting a passport with your maiden name by supplying the Decree Absolute copies etc., etc., and lord knows what else, then at this stage you should worry about tidying up the Padron and NIE, but today you are who your passport says you are.
Hope the process is smooth and headache free for you.
Xose |
Thank you, Xose, for the reply and for answering so late at night, as it means I can go ahead tomorrow. I'll just use my passport then - it'll be much easier to ask the U.K. pensions office to change back to my married name for an E121 than to get a new passport in my maiden name and it'll be free, as well. I'll have to ask the campsite to alter their records, but otherwise it should be quite simple. (It won't be, though - it was horrendous when I moved to France, though I think it's easier for expats who arrive there now.)
I'll print copies of my marriage and divorce certificates and keep them in the van, in case the traffic police ask why the vehicle documents are in a different name.