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Title: Los Angeles man wins right to use wife's last name
Post by: Natasha on May 06, 2008, 05:57:50 PM
Los Angeles man wins right to use wife's last name

Link (http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0541896320080505?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews)
5/6/2008

"LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - All Michael Buday wanted to do was take the last name of his wife, Diana Bijon, when they married.  But it took two years, a lawsuit alleging sex discrimination and a change in California law before he picked up his new drivers license in the name of Michael Bijon on Monday."
Title: Re: Los Angeles man wins right to use wife's last name
Post by: Dennis on May 06, 2008, 06:19:54 PM
Wow, that's ridiculous that it was so hard to do that. In Japanese culture, it sometimes happens that a man will take his wife's last name if she has no brothers to carry on her family name and he has brothers that will carry on his family name.

Dennis