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From: barry@n0atp.UUCP (Barry S. Berg)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Proposed lawsuit
Summary: here's a way not to go to court :-)
Message-ID: <44@n0atp.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jul 88 15:12:06 GMT
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Reply-To: barry@n0atp.UUCP (Barry S. Berg)
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In article <551@etive.ed.ac.uk> jcb@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Julian Bradfield) writes:
:In article <1040@unccvax.UUCP> dya@unccvax.UUCP (York David Anthony) writes:
:
:>	Why should this default to "men" however. [ ...]
:>can't I say (with equal legitimacy) that emancipated men have the
:>right to be treated exactly the same as women. 
:>[....] I were, upon marriage, to change my
:>last name to the one whom I entered the marriage contract, obstensibly
:
:Assuming your mangled sentence is trying to say `... if I were to take
:my wife's name', no brouhaha at all. I believe (but don't know) that
:that United States law is like English law in that your name is
:whatever you choose to be called. It is, in Europe, by no means
:unprecedented for a man to take his wife's surname, although it tended
:only to happen when a man married into a rather more important
:family---especially if he was marrying the only heiress of the family.

   As a matter of fact In Minnesota the marriage certificate asks at
   the bottom what you wish to change your name to.  I was going to
   fill in "Dr. Irving K. Fienblat, MD, DVM, DDS, JD, CPA" but my wife 
   wouldn't let me, and the clerk thought I was nuts. :-)  
   Actually, she said that it is the cheapest and fastest way to legally 
   change your name.  Otherwise, you have to get a lawyer and go to court
   and prove why the state should allow you to do so.  We also had a very
   good chuckle about in the future filling in the blank of Maiden Name,
   which would be hard since I was never a maiden.  BTW the above would
   be legal, and all the "titles and degrees" would be part of the name
   so it would be pronounced "dir irving kay fienblat mid divum d-dis
   jud seepa" say that three times fast :-)
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