Like for instance I am a man named Kyle Smith and I marry Jenny Jones-Gostowski, she chooses to take both names can she be Jenny Jones-Gostowski-Smith!? And has this ever happened!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Position:Home>Genealogy> If you marry someone with a hyphenated last name and they choose to keep their lQuestion: If you marry someone with a hyphenated last name and they choose to keep their last name, do they now have 3!? Like for instance I am a man named Kyle Smith and I marry Jenny Jones-Gostowski, she chooses to take both names can she be Jenny Jones-Gostowski-Smith!? And has this ever happened!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: US Answer: When you get married you have to actually do paperwork to have your name changed - it doesn't just magically or automatically happen upon filing that the marriage happened!. When you have your name changed you really do have control over what it gets changed to!. I have know people to have a tri-hypenated name, people that chose to drop their middle name and use the hyphenated maiden name as a middle name and the husband's as a last, people that dropped the maiden and used only the husband's, people that never changed the last name at all, and some that dropped the last portion of the hyphenated maiden name and replaced it with the husband's (so Jones-Gostowski became Jones-Smith)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Don't know if it has ever happened but it is entirely possible!. I have seen cases where children have been given their mother's last name in order to keep that last name alive!. Frankly I am not a big fan of name hyphenization, I feel it makes a husband feel small and deprives him of a traditional right to carry his family name, I have often considered having my last name changed back to the original spelling as everyone pronounces it wrong!. Www@QuestionHome@Com I don't know if it's ever happened in that way but it is possible!. Now that I think about it, it happens quite often in Spain and many Latin American countries!. in Spain the traditional surnames are Father's Father's Name Mother's Father's Name (no hyphen) and when the woman gets married she keeps her name and adds "y Her husband's Father's name" or "de her husband's father's name" for example: Paloma Martinez Alba marries Juan Reyes Cisneros!. Paloma becomes Paloma Martinez Alba y Reyes or Paloma Martinez Alba de Reyes!. She would be known as Sra!. de Reyes but her legal last name is Martinez Alba de Reyes!. their children's last name would be Reyes Martinez!. Www@QuestionHome@Com It gets a little crazy after a while!.!.!. When my husband and I got married we discussed both of us hyphenating our names but then we thought about our kids having hyphenated names and getting married to other people's kids with hyphenated last names and having grandchildren with the last name Jones-Aston-Ericson-Kehler and we decided to keep our own names :) I get to have my own last name which is what I really cared about anyway and the kids have his last name because I don't think the name really matters that much unless you're giving it (and the identity you've had all your life) up!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Yes!.Www@QuestionHome@Com yes it would be Www@QuestionHome@Com Legally, your wife's hyphenated maiden/last name will be moved to replace her middle name, and the second hyphen eliminated!. e!.g!. drivers license, professional license, payroll records, medical records, future academic records, insurance policies, Social Security card, credit cards, Last Will and Testament!. Even with today's technology, most computer programs aren't programmed to handle that many letters and symbols for a last name!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |