Los Angeles man wins right to use wife's last name

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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."

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