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Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 17:53
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Surnames


A person can always go to court and get his name changed to anything he
wishes.  Changing a name at marriage is legal without going to court.
Removing a name does take a court action, I believe.  I doubt I ever
have to find out for sure.

Hello,  

Actually, removing a name is as easy as adding one.  When I got married,
I wanted to keep my maiden name.  My partner wanted me to take his name.
After several heated discussions, we compromised, and for 14 years, I
lived with a hyphenated last name.  Since I already have a hyphenated
first name, you can imagine the confusion and variations of names!!!!
All I had to do to take the hyphenated last name, was sign the mariage
papers with it.

Then, when I left him, I wanted to drop his name.  The lawyer told me
that all I had to do was sign the separation papers with the maiden name
only, and use it.  There was no problem, as a matter of fact people
found Lise-Aurore Lapalme much easier to handle than Lise-Aurore
Lapalme-Roy.

Either way, at least in Canada, it's very easy to hyphenate or
de-hyphenate.

Lise-Aurore
In cloudy Ottawa, Canada

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