RedAngie
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- Joined
- Sep 10, 2015
And yet another reason I'm so glad that I didn't change my name when we got married! Never been an issue for us, and we've been married 30 years.
Me too - married almost 40 years - never changed my name - even though - in SC - in 1980 - it was illegal (May still be for all I know) for a woman to keep her name after she got married...
Yet another reason to avoid changing your name. I never did and had zero problems with Real ID.
I didn't change my name either of the times I got married. No official problems, but occasionally there were minor awkward situations, such as DH being addressed by my last name and vice versa.
I'm surprised to her it wasn't legal for a married woman to keep her birth name in South Carolina in 1980. I remember reading about a case that happened in Maryland in the 1960's. A woman got married and decided to keep her maiden name. That state's DMV cancelled her driver's license and the Board of Elections refused to allow her to vote unless she took her husband's surname. She sued and won. There was a similar case in Wisconsin about the same time with the same results In those states anyway, women could not be forced to take their husband's surnames after marrying.