Lightbrite……….
People don’t put II or Junior on their driver’s licenses, the employees at Motor Vehicles Dept (agency name in CT) do.
When getting a driver’s license you must present your certified birth certificate, US Passport or Alien Registration card. The ‘legal’ name on that document will be the named placed on the driver’s license.
When our youngest went to get her license at age 16, we discovered that the Probate Court had added the letter ‘A’ before her name when the issued a US birth certificate (she was born in China). Motor vehicles would only issue a license with that ‘legal’ name on it.
I went back to court and filed papers for a name change, we had to appear before the Judge of Probate (a neighbor and friend in this small town) and the request was granted and a new birth certificate issued. Then we had to go to Motor Vehicle and file for a new license with a name change, such as a woman might request upon marriage.
Court costs were approximately $200, motor vehicles did not charge for the change. This wasted approximately 6 hours of my time. As an attorney, my daughter did not have to pay any legal fees. A typical client with such an issue, which could be handled by a junior staff attorney and still require an appearance in court and paperwork by a paralegal would have had to pay approximately $350 to fix the problem.
Moral of the story, check all documents when issued to make sure they are correct or it will cost time and money to change them later.