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From: mds@globe01.cs.duke.edu (Mark David Shattuck)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Name Change After Marriage
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Date: 26 Jul 90 23:40:16 GMT
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In article <1990Jul13.180104.16435@cbnewsh.att.com> adelle@mtfmk.att.COM (Adelle W Petrocco) writes:
>I got married two months ago and want to use my maiden name as
>my middle name and my husband's last name.
>
>the NJ Division of Motor Vehicles won't let me do it.  It is
>their "policy" that I would have to have a legal name change.

	That's funny!  My wife wanted to do just the opposite,
keep her middle name, but NC DMV said that she had to use her
maiden name unless she had a legal name change.  Perhaps you
should move to NC and we should move to NJ. :)

	Mark Shattuck (mds@cs.duke.edu)