Mississippi | OntarioCanuck - 2/12/2016 13:12 You might be interested to know some jurisdictions the wife keeps her birth surname. Only gets to change it to the husbands surname with a lot of work and very good reason. The other option is to hyphenate the 2 surnames but routine name change to husbands surname is not allowed. That is the reason our Prime Ministers wife is Sophie Gregoire
That's fascinating. Is that mainly in portions of Canada where French customs were more influential or elsewhere, as well?
In hispanic society the names get even more complicated:
http://perez.cs.vt.edu/twolastnames
Edited by Owen Taylor 2/12/2016 13:42
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Maiden names?
