Or can she keep her maiden name? What does the law say?
2007-03-03 05:43:34 · 20 answers · asked by languagesareme 2 in Family & Relationships ➔ Marriage & Divorce
In England and Wales she does not have to change her surname; it is merely a custom, not a law. In this jurisdiction, the law says you can call yourself whatever you like, provided your intention is not to defraud by doing so.
2007-03-03 06:53:16 · answer #1 · answered by Specsy 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Its usually upto the woman to decide if she likes to take the surname of the husband or keep her maiden name. But since we have been living in a male dominated society since centuries the woman was not really allowed to excercise her option. Law in India definitely has no say in this, though the sharia (islamic law) requires the woman to keep her maiden name but the so called islamic nations may have conveniently preferred to look the other way.
2007-03-03 05:51:19 · answer #2 · answered by Hot Hunk 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is nothing in UK law about this: it is just a tradition. In times gone by, survival depended mainly on physical strength and prowess. A woman, being physically weak, was naturally in an inferior position. She gave herself entirely to a man to come under his protection. She forfeited her own individual identity to become a "Mrs" whoever.
With the rise of technology intellectual ability has replaced physical strength as the means of gaining superiority, so society is changing where women are able to be at least equal to men. Traditions, institutions, and buildings, tend to outlast the times in which they originally had a function. It seems quite likely that more and more women will begin to go against the tradition, and it will change.
The only thing I find surprising is that so many respondents to this question have such strong feelings about which way it "should" be. Personally, I would be very open to any alternative ideas any partner of mine might have with regard to names.
2007-03-03 06:13:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
My niece has looked into this as she lost her daddy(my brother), her brother, and her Granada (my father) five years ago in a fishing tragedy. Her little brother was the only boy and in our family we were brought up to carry on the family name and that is the reason she is keeping her maiden name when she marries. So yes you most definitely can keep your own name.
2007-03-03 06:00:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
tradition has it that that a woman will have 2 bear her husband surname when she is married to him, but there are some cases where the lady will decide to keep her maiden name in addition to her husband's surname, but this only happens when the woman is from a royal place or if the woman's family are very influential and rich.
2007-03-03 06:32:34 · answer #5 · answered by omo 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
If she needs to regulate it, and he or she lives contained in the U. S., she has to bypass to the Social protection place of work to get a clean Social protection card mutually with her new very last call on it ( with a approved replica of your marriage license, the single you get after that is criminal, no longer the single you get earlier the marriage). once she receives that, she will be in a position to regulate her drivers license, and something else mutually with her previous call on it (economic employer money owed, charge playing cards etc....). yet she has to do it. It doesn't merely replace straight away. some women people save their maiden names.
2016-11-27 02:14:34 · answer #6 · answered by kirodimal 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I kept my maiden name for everything no problem
2007-03-03 05:58:06 · answer #7 · answered by barneysmommy 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it's not required by law... but personally i think its downright rude for a woman to keep her maiden name when she gets married... when people get married, they are supposed to be starting a new life with each other and accepting every part of each other. but when the woman keeps her maiden name, it's like she's already rejecting a part of her husband-- its like his name isn't good enough for her or something.
2007-03-03 05:53:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
No law can force you to change your name.
2007-03-03 05:47:26 · answer #9 · answered by riettebotha2 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
No but it would be silly not 2 imagine he`s Mr Smith and she keeps her name Jones so you get letters for a Mrs Jones. The whole point of marriage is to show union it just happens that women have not always been equal so its the male name used. I think in a world of equality maybe you should flip on who`s name is used but i would find it offensive as a man in reality
2007-03-03 05:53:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋