If you’ve been divorced
Did you go back to your maiden name? I’m trying to decide what I want to do. My oldest has her father’s last name, I share my stbxs last name with my younger two kids. So if I change back I won’t match anyone. And I remember it being a major PITA to change it when I got married, I assume it’s the same in reverse? Ugh.
-
- Regent
- Posts: 3153
- Joined: Tue Jun 09, 2020 1:38 pm
I used the occasion of my divorce to pick a last name I liked. I married from Johnson to Wilson and when I got divorced I could see little point in changing from one dull name back to the other. I instead chose my mom's maiden name, it's interesting and goes well with my first name. All I had to do was show my divorce papers at the DMV to get a name change of my choice.
-
- Duchess
- Posts: 1650
- Joined: Fri Dec 08, 2023 8:30 am
Go with your real name. Whatever you feel like that is.
I never changed my name even after marriage because I thought my name was too precious to my identity to give up.
I never changed my name even after marriage because I thought my name was too precious to my identity to give up.
This. Same.Slimshandy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:16 am Go with your real name. Whatever you feel like that is.
I never changed my name even after marriage because I thought my name was too precious to my identity to give up.
- sarah824
- Duchess
- Posts: 1580
- Joined: Tue Jun 19, 2018 3:39 pm
- Location: Small town, OR
I got married to my HS sweetheart a few years after we graduated. We were married for about 5-1/2 years. I took his name and I kept it when we divorced because it was MY name and it was how I was known at work. When I got remarried a few years later I took DH's name and that is what I have used for 20 years. If we were to divorce I would keep it.
I never considered that I could change to something else. I do like my mom’s maiden name. Maybe I could go by that. Bc I don’t really want to be associated with stbx any more then I already have to.SallyMae wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2024 8:59 am I used the occasion of my divorce to pick a last name I liked. I married from Johnson to Wilson and when I got divorced I could see little point in changing from one dull name back to the other. I instead chose my mom's maiden name, it's interesting and goes well with my first name. All I had to do was show my divorce papers at the DMV to get a name change of my choice.
- carterscutie85
- Princess
- Posts: 11977
- Joined: Mon May 21, 2018 10:19 am
I'd keep my married name if I got divorced. It wasn't actually a pain to change it when I got married. Just timely but I got it all done within half a day.
No but only because business signs and my certificates had my married name on them. When I retire or change careers I may then change back to my maiden name.
-
- Princess
- Posts: 11134
- Joined: Tue May 22, 2018 12:32 am
- Location: Southwest USA
If I got divorced now I'd still keep my married name because I've had my married name for more of my life than I had my maiden name.
When my parents got divorced my mom kept her married name while my sister and I were still minors. She felt it made everything easier to have the same last name as her kids, and from my POV it did.
When my parents got divorced my mom kept her married name while my sister and I were still minors. She felt it made everything easier to have the same last name as her kids, and from my POV it did.