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  • Man Fights to Take Wife's Name

    01/08/2007 4:54:07 PM PST · by uglybiker · 97 replies · 1,945+ views
    ABC News ^ | Jan. 8, 2007 | MICHELLE RITTNER
    Before Michael Buday married his fiancée, Diana Bijon, he decided to honor her family by bucking tradition and taking her last name. But, it wasn't so easy. Under California state law, he needed to pay more than $300, go to court, file a petition, and publicly advertise his name change for four weeks in a local newspaper. If he had simply gone along with tradition, it would have cost only $50 to $80. So Buday, 29, went to court, along with the ACLU, to change the law. They recently announced their plans to sue the California Department of Health Services,...