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

[Natasha]

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."

[Dennis]

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