I am not sure about lesbians but in a gay male marriage, would one take the other's last name or would they just keep their own last names?
2006-08-27 17:55:55 · 15 answers · asked by royalbluebear 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
Well I am just curious about this. As for heterosexual marriages, I did not know that the wife would not have to take her husbands last name.
2006-08-27 18:37:59 · update #1
In any marriage you don't have to change your last name. But in a gay marriage you just do what you as a couple want to do. There's no law about changing your name.
2006-08-27 18:10:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nope, taking your partner's last name, whether a hetero or homosexual couple, is completely VOLUNTARY.
There has never been a law requiring one or the other partner of a marriage to change their name.
BUT...in heteromarriages, if the wife does take the husband's name it's a free service and costs nothing to do. All is needed is the legal marriage certificate and a copy of the wife's birth certificate to have her SS card changed. Once this happens she may and must use her married name for everything.
ON THE OTHER HAND...in homosexual partnerships, this is a legal name change and the name changing partner must pay court fees to have this done.
UNEQUAL yet again.
I never went back to my maiden name after my divorce because, even though it cost me nothing to change my name to my husband's after we married, I would have to pay to change it back now that we've been divorced.
Talk about screwy.
2006-08-27 20:40:31 · answer #2 · answered by DEATH 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For one, depending on what country and/or state, this issue is not even a concern that can be addressed by couples. For another, the taking of a partner's last name is a tradition which is not mandated by law. Considering that Homosexual marriages are anything but traditional, this is something that has to be disgust wit the partner. I assume that, as with hetero marriages this is something that is of personal preference.
2006-08-27 18:18:50 · answer #3 · answered by copaceticlove 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have seen both - where the grooms assume the other's family name, in a hyphenated fashion, or where the grooms have maintained their current family name. In Canada, where gay marriage is legal, the decision to change or modify names as result of marriage is left up to the partners to decide.
2006-08-27 17:59:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Thus far a majority of men have retained their last names; a few, very few, have chosen to adopt their partners name and and even smaller nunch have SWAPPED names - - - but just as women are retaining their last name after marriage, so do a majority of men. Peace.
PS If your partners last name is Phillip and your last name is Buttsenganger it is a no brainer,
2006-08-27 23:54:40 · answer #5 · answered by JVHawai'i 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No one has to change names in any marriage, straight or gay. There is no law about name changes
2006-08-27 17:58:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
under English/British regulation you are able to no longer marry. The definition of marriage is that it truly is between 2 human beings of the different intercourse. The regulation in this u . s . recognises a "Civil Partnership" between 2 human beings of the comparable intercourse. the style you certainly do the ceremonial section is a controversy for you offering that it truly is in accordance with the regulation. you will possibly pick to touch the registrar and the equivalent in France and enquire what the criminal standards are in each u . s .. Why might desire to you desire to stay in separate international locations? easily that defeats the objective?
2016-11-05 22:32:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one HAS to change last names. Some friends of mine recently had their ceremony...an all out wedding actually....one girl took the other girls last name. So I think it's jsut a personal choice.
2006-08-28 07:19:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's up to the people getting married whatever they want to do. One may want to change their last name, they both may want to hyphenate last names, or they might not change anything at all. It's all up to the decision of individuals.
2006-08-28 10:29:51 · answer #9 · answered by Skylar 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most men I know keep their own names. But they can handle it any way. I know two male couples who hyphenate and one who took his husband's name because he liked his husband's name better.
My wife and I have recently hyphenated. We're still getting everyone else used to it, but we like having done it.
2006-08-27 18:03:08 · answer #10 · answered by GreenEyedLilo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋