thread: Did you revert to your maiden name after you separated?

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  1. #1
    BellyBelly Life Subscriber & MPM

    Feb 2007
    Melbourne
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    Oh, so sorry you are going through this .

    My parents divorced when I was 3 years old, my mum kept her married name so that we shared the same surname (she raised the three of us all by herself). She remarried when I was 13 and changed her surname then.

  2. #2
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    Feb 2009
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  3. #3
    Registered User

    Dec 2005
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    I wouldnt have done it til we got divorced. Even then I prob couldnt be bothered, and it would have kept our (the kids and I's) surnames the same. But I like my married name better than my maiden name.


  4. #4
    Lucy in the sky with diamonds.

    Jan 2005
    Funky Town, Vic
    7,070

    Yep.
    But I only had 50% of the stuff changed over to my married name anyway because I wasn't prepared to let go my maiden name for everything.

    bet that didn't help at all....

  5. #5
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    Jan 2005
    cowtown
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    I think its important to have the same surname as my kids.
    If I got divorced, I'd want to change my name back but I'd only do it if I could change all my kids names to my maiden name as well.

  6. #6
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    Dec 2007
    Sunny Qld
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    I changed mine when the divorce came through, as I needed the divorce certificate to change it with Queensland transport for my drivers licence and nobody would let me change anything else without that done first

    I have a different surname to my kids now though because I didn't change it when I remarried.


  7. #7
    Lucy in the sky with diamonds.

    Jan 2005
    Funky Town, Vic
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    My kids don't even have the same surnames, tee hee, doesn't bother us - one has my surname and one has his.

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    Mar 2007
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