sorry i probably sound really stupid, but this is for a novel i'm writing...
i mean, do you necessarily HAVE to take the name of your mom or your dad? or do you get to pick?
2007-01-13 15:33:24 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family & Relationships ➔ Marriage & Divorce
When your parents divorce, you keep the same name you've had all along. It's not necessary to change your name. Why would you want to?
2007-01-13 15:38:48 · answer #1 · answered by Proud to be 59 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, you sort of get to pick, if you have a parent who is willing to go through the legal process of getting your name changed. The fact of the matter is that your birth name, the name on your birth certificate, will stay the same, by default. It takes legal action to change it. This can be done, but the standard is that you keep the name you were given when you were born.
2007-01-13 15:50:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My parent's divorced before I was 2. I have my father's last name. A friend of mine whose parents recently divorced, she has her father's last name. Friend who went through a very bad divorce with a very bad father still carries her father's last name.
I think since it is on your birth certificate it is harder to change it in the result of a divorce.
Everyone I know has kept their birth name. Although, I am sure you could take your mother's maiden if you really really really wanted to. But what do you do if your mother remarries? Change your last name... again?
I think keeping your original name is most common and most convenient.
2007-01-13 15:42:59 · answer #3 · answered by Allison 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the two confirm can fill interior the place of work work on the delivery certificates. So in case your dad exchange into to excited or not, if that's what the two him and your mom rather wanted it to assert at that element, i think of it could. i could stay with the call you have already got and wait until you get married sometime to alter it.
2016-10-19 23:03:44 · answer #4 · answered by mctaggart 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As far as I know and my parents are divorced> You don't get to choice, you keep your dads last name. That is unless you want it changed then you pay to change.
2007-01-13 15:50:31 · answer #5 · answered by cowgirl! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your name does not change from the name you had when you were born. The only one who has an option would be the wife, who can petition the court to return to her maiden name. Otherwise, the kids' names don't change.
2007-01-13 15:38:56 · answer #6 · answered by daddysnurse 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You keep the name that is signed on your birth certificate until you come of age enough to legally change your name.
2007-01-13 15:39:23 · answer #7 · answered by semurrin 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually i belive you are supposedto keep your dad's last name, because that was your birth name, your mom changes her name. But I think you can take your mom's name if you really want to.
2007-01-13 15:39:03 · answer #8 · answered by Don A 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think you should keep the name you were born with..... I feel this is only natural..... You dont sound stupid at all.
2007-01-13 15:50:16 · answer #9 · answered by Lady Hewitt 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How can you write the great american novel unless you have this information? Wait awhile on that...
2007-01-13 15:38:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋