Hum? I am not sure I beleive this. When I got married, I just changed my drivers license and social security card, that was it.
A couple we know changed the husband’s middle name to her last name, so they were both hyphenated with the same name.
They never had an issue.
Well, every state has their own rules about this I guess.
Question: What happens when a hyphenated name marries another hyphenated name? Serious.
Does that last name get merged and we have a double-hyphenated last name? Then a quadruple hyphenated last name and so on. . .?
If not, and their child has a single last name, then why hyphenate the name to begin with. . .to show the child the wife is standing apart from the husband? Making a statement to everyone that she is not part of a single family? What does that tell any child they might have, that they are not one family but a temporary arrangement, that they are not one family but separate?
Taking a single last name is to reflect becoming one, becoming a single family. Take the man’s last name (or the woman’s), no matter, by doing so affirms you are one, a family, a single unit.
Just me, of course.