Continuing in my series on name changes after divorce, let’s talk about children. Louise at first decided she would keep her married name but two years after her divorce she decided to go back to her maiden name. Her seventh-grade daughter has also decided to change her name while her high-school freshman son wants to…
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Changing your mind about your name
I’m in the middle of a series on changing or keeping your name after divorce and today, here’s a story from Louise who at first, like Mary Wright decided on keeping her married name and then changed her mind to go back to her maiden name. *** When we told the kids about our divorce,…
Reclaiming your name after divorce
Continuing with this series on changing your name after divorce, like me, going back to her maiden name as a no brainer for Kirstie, Her reasons though were quite different than mine. *** I didn’t want to have his last name anymore. I don’t want to have anything to do with him. I have so…
A no-brainer – going back to my maiden name
Once I knew I was getting divorced, I also knew without a doubt I wanted to change my name back to my maiden name. There was a part of me that never knew why I had changed my name in the first place although I think it had to do with demonstrating commitment and maintaining…
