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Man files lawsuit to take wife's name
Yahoo ^ | Fri Jan 12, 5:52 PM ET | GREG RISLING, Associated Press Writer

Posted on 01/13/2007 4:16:59 PM PST by Caipirabob

LOS ANGELES - Mike Buday isn't married to his last name. In fact, he and his fiancee decided before they wed that he would take hers. But Buday was stunned to learn that he couldn't simply become Mike Bijon when they married in 2005.

As in most other states, that would require some bureaucratic paperwork well beyond what a woman must go through to change her name when marrying.

Instead of completing the expensive, time-consuming process, Buday and his wife, Diana Bijon, enlisted the American Civil Liberties Union and filed a discrimination lawsuit against the state of California. They claim the difficulty faced by a husband seeking to change his name violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: discrimination; govwatch; marriage; name
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To: Past Your Eyes

I had one.


21 posted on 01/13/2007 5:13:41 PM PST by kinoxi
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To: Caipirabob
looking for ez money
22 posted on 01/13/2007 5:14:00 PM PST by SouthernBoyupNorth ("For my wings are made of Tungsten, my flesh of glass and steel..........")
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To: Caipirabob

You can change your name to virtually anything. Can't see why this is a big deal.


23 posted on 01/13/2007 5:23:43 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: Caipirabob

I couldn't imagine ever not taking my husband's name. However, it should be no one's damned business if someone chooses to do that or not. It should be as easy for this guy to do it as it was for me.


24 posted on 01/13/2007 5:27:06 PM PST by ShadowDancer (Life is not tried, it is merely survived if you're standing outside the fire.)
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To: Caipirabob

I guess if your last name was the same as a french rear-end washing apparatus, you would jump at the chance to change it.


25 posted on 01/13/2007 5:34:37 PM PST by NavVet (O)
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To: plain talk

You got my vote. This guy wouldnt make a pimple on a mans butt.

Like You I say who cares what he calls himself?

Obvioulsy he come from a family with little self-respect.

On top of that he wants to take a Frog name?? Man thats sick. Well I guess Bijon is as good as Bidet'.


26 posted on 01/13/2007 5:37:30 PM PST by sgtbono2002 (Peace through strength.)
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To: UpAllNight
Headline is misleading. He can change his name. It is just that the woman can do it by checking a block on the license while the man has to go through more tedious and expensive requirements.

Of course, the lawsuit is cheaper, right?

I'm sure he'll argue that he's trying to protect the right of other men to do likewise, but how many men take their wives' names even in states where it's no more difficult than vice versa?

It is quite normal for states to make it bureaucratically easier to do common things than to do uncommon ones. If I were the lawyer for the state, I would argue that the reason women have the easy checkbox is that so many of them take their husband's name that allowing the checkbox substantially reduces the amount of paperwork the state has to handle even though it means that searching for a list of names a woman has formerly used requires searching through the marriage files as well as the non-marriage name-change files. To allow husbands to take their wives' names without filing a separate name-change form would make it necessary to search both sets of files when doing background checks for men as well as when doing them for women.

27 posted on 01/13/2007 5:38:38 PM PST by supercat (Sony delenda est.)
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To: sgtbono2002
On top of that he wants to take a Frog name?? Man thats sick.

LOL. My maiden name was as French as it gets and my dad is where I get my conservatism from (note I didn't say Republicanism). What's your point?

28 posted on 01/13/2007 5:40:31 PM PST by ShadowDancer (Life is not tried, it is merely survived if you're standing outside the fire.)
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To: Sam Clements

Yet no one seems to notice Buday, which I can only suspect is pronounced Bud-DAY, pretty close to "bidet" is a pretty stupid name. I'd change it if I had it.
Even if it's pronounced "Buddy," ... Equally dumb.


29 posted on 01/13/2007 5:47:45 PM PST by arroyo run
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To: supercat

Equal rights for men. No contest.


30 posted on 01/13/2007 5:54:03 PM PST by UpAllNight
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To: Caipirabob
It's California. The "wife" may well have been a man a few years ago.
31 posted on 01/13/2007 5:55:10 PM PST by fso301
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To: ShadowDancer

Just throwing a little dart there Hon. Pardon please.


32 posted on 01/13/2007 5:58:35 PM PST by sgtbono2002 (Peace through strength.)
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To: Heavy Fuel

Are you sure?


33 posted on 01/13/2007 6:00:31 PM PST by Osage Orange (molon labe)
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To: Caipirabob

That is no man, that is the offsprint a cat and a whip.


34 posted on 01/13/2007 6:02:09 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Caipirabob

Some people just look for any reason to sue and get their name in a newspaper.


35 posted on 01/13/2007 6:09:00 PM PST by NapkinUser
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To: plain talk

This guy should qualify for the "pussy of the year" award.


36 posted on 01/13/2007 6:28:09 PM PST by Husker24
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To: Caipirabob

Another example of the 'feminization of men' or 'new castrati'.


37 posted on 01/13/2007 6:50:14 PM PST by texas_mrs
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To: leda

Starbucks has no urinals for the same reason.


38 posted on 01/14/2007 3:29:41 AM PST by Stallone (War and Politics: When the Enemy begins to feel pain, they change their behavior to avoid it.)
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To: Libertarianize the GOP

Hats off to you sir! You alone have captured and correctly encapsulated the genuine principles involved in this little tempest-in-a-teapot. I like your thinking and your byline.


39 posted on 01/14/2007 4:52:10 AM PST by barkeep (Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc)
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To: Stallone

thanks for sharing that bit of info. :)

it's not like i would have ever found that
out myself since i have never gone in a mens
restroom in starbucks or any other place.


40 posted on 01/14/2007 8:30:06 AM PST by leda (The quiet girl on the stairs.)
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