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prediction : relationship : HUSBAND TAKES WIFE'S LAST NAME

[+] serious ballot by UncleRandy
ACTIVE May 07,2008 - Mon Jan 31, 11

New brides have done it for centuries and now, after nearly three years of legal wrangling, a California man has officially taken his wife's last name.
The former Michael Buday, picked up his new driver's license Monday with his wife's surname, Bijon, following settlements with the Department of Motor Vehicles and Department of Health Services.
Buday, now Bijon, promised his wife Diana on their wedding day in August 2005 that he would take her name since she had no brothers and wanted to prolong her family name. The former Buday said he was estranged from his own father and was not attached to his last name.
But changing his name proved difficult and costly. With backing from the ACLU, he eventually decided to file a first-of-its-kind discrimination lawsuit against the state of California.
For Buday to take his wife's name, he would have had to pay court fees of more than $300, advertise his plans in newspaper for four weeks and get judicial approval.
For Bijon to take her husband's name, she would have had to pay a county application fee that ranges from $50 to $90.
"I never imagined the state would make it so difficult," said Buday. "It was a symbolic gesture, but it's also very real for us. It's about what our children will be named, about starting a new family on our own terms. For us, it was very traditional."
According to the settlement agreement, the state Department of Motor Vehicle and Department of Health Services changed their policies and forms to allow husbands, wives and domestic partners to take each other's last names.
"What's in a name is the message that a marriage is a union between equals," said Mark Rosenbaum, legal director for the ACLU of Southern California. "California now has a marriage license for the 21st century, not the 15th century."
"When we got married, the law basically said, `Don't be silly, only a woman can change her name when she gets married.' I'm proud to be part of changing that," Diana Bijon said.

So, what do you think?

Want to take Her last name? Is this a good idea?

If your name is Lipschitz or something like that, and her name is better.	3
Sounds like a nightmare for Municipalities.	0
Divorce Court will never be the same.	4
Wonderdful idea whose time has always been here, tragically	4

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COMMENTS:
Voted : Wonderdful idea whose time has always been here, tragically
It's a wonderful and necessary idea and it elevates women's human value. It recgonizes the value also of women's identity, realizing that it is worthy of being bestowed on another. I think it was Sweden who recently changed their rules to allow royal lineage for the first time to be passed on to females. Both, brilliant moves.

by forgetmenot on Wed May 07, 08 10:04pm [+]

Voted : Wonderdful idea whose time has always been here, tragically
I like it.

by nuckinfutz on Wed May 07, 08 11:32pm [+]

I wouldn't do it. It would completely alter the Geneology and family tree. If my Wife doesn't want my last name, she can get another Husband.

by patch22us on Thu May 08, 08 5:55am [+]

Voted : Wonderdful idea whose time has always been here, tragically
When I got married 34 years ago The courts asked which name we wanted to change or if we wanted to pick a different last name... But then that was the '70's...

by ArtPG55 on Fri May 09, 08 7:49am [+]

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