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At my divorce from my second wife, I was given the decision if her last name stayed or went back to her maiden name, I told the judge to change it back.
then the judge is just as big a dick as the ex-husband
Well, I have his last name and mine and I am not ALLOWED to drop his last name unless he ALLOWS me to drop it in the divorce decree.
That is nuts!!
I am going to request it, and will see what happens.
you don't have to "request" anything
let's cut to the chase
you can legally change your name at any time to whatever you want.
there is a form for that, you fill it in, you file it with the court, you pay your $75 (or whatever), you appear before a judge,you answer some questions, and you have your new LEGAL name
I bore children with that name and I had that name for 28 years. He was adamant that I change it and tried to make it part of the divorce decree that I HAD to find another last name. I told the judge this: I bore this jerk children and they are MY children more than they are his as he never once took them to the emergency room, got up during the night for them, took them to soccer practice, or church choir, never once went to a PTA meeting or a parent teacher meeting; had never once met the principal of their schools or any of their teachers; didn't know their doctors, had never met their orthopedist; and now he wants to divorce ME from MY children? That's my name by virtue of my children. If he no longer wants to share the same last name with me, he is welcome to take any other name he wishes. I am not changing my name, unless my grown children agree to take whatever name I have and I will not have him continue to try to force his will on me as he did for all those years. I'm no longer his victim.
Judge asked him if he wanted to change HIS name.
i love this story Annie!
When I got married at age 20 I took on my husband's name. it immediately felt weird and uncomfortable. i had always written and published under my own name since age 12. I just could not put "his" name as a byline on my published articles and books. So I changed it back a few years into the marriage. That felt much better. The kids have his last name. If I had it to do over again, half the kids would have my last name.
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