Just an anecdote from Spain: Spanish women keep their maiden name all their
lives and do not use their husbands' names. Our mailbox in Madrid -as our
bank account- lists my full name and my wife's full maiden name. My wife's
Spanish passport does not contain her married name, nor does any single
document relating to her. As a result, our children's surnames contain both
our names, with mine first and my wife's second (it's the reverse in
Portugal). Naturally, Legacy assumes that the last surname is the one that
counts, but it doesn't: it's the first one, the husband's, that is passed
on. Of course, there's no problem in correcting this on the family file, and
so on with every succeeding generation.
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