Changed his name after marriage and wrote a new ketubah at a later date

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Your question is a good question

A person who changed his name after marriage, from the essence of the law, does not need to make a new ketubah, since the name written in the ketubah was indeed his name at the time of marriage, therefore the ketubah is kosher.

However, there are those who are strict and write a new ketubah, and there are those who prefer not to write a new ketubah, but only add to the old ketubah, that on such and such a date the bride or groom changed his name from one to another. And witnesses or an ordained rabbi sign it, and this was the custom of the Rabbi of Jerusalem, Rabbi Shalom Mashash, zt”l.

And this is more appropriate than to write a new ketubah, since sometimes the new name is not yet used and it is difficult to write a ketubah only on the new name when the person is not called by his new name.

In your case that you have already done a new ketubah, you should have mentioned in the ketubah the date of marriage of course, as you mentioned in your question, but in retrospect such a ketubah is also kosher, because it is written with a later time is kosher retroactively.

In fact, if the old ketubah still exists, you don’t need to do anything because the first ketubah is kosher. However, if the old ketubah was torn, it is appropriate to first ask the rabbi who arranged the ketubah to write in the new ketubah that he made, the original date of the wedding and note that the ketubah with the new name was written on a different date from the original wedding date. [As is the existing wording in the Ketubah [דאירכסא, ובכתובה דאישתכח בה טעותא].

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Rabbi David Ohayon

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