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What happens when two people with hyphenated last names get married? Do they hyphenate all four names and in what order? (self.showerthoughts)

submitted 8 months ago by an_onanist to c/showerthoughts

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[–] RememberTheApollo_ 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You talk about it and decide together.

In our case we both kept our last names. Why change her last name when that’s who she’s always been? Really simplifies things as far as paperwork goes. Also - LPT: when you have different last names you can get double the introductory offers on things like internet packages at home. Just sign up under one name, cancel when able, sign up under the other. They don’t know you’re married.

[–] stoicmaverick 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What about the kids?

[–] SeabassDan 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Great idea! That's another couple of accounts you can open up, and maybe even a few credit lines when both the parents have used theirs up.

Kidding obviously, because this place gets pretty rough sometimes.

[–] stoicmaverick 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I mainly ask, because when I worked in an armory there was a dude named 'GonzalezLamas-Suarez' whose name I had to handwrite on a very small line every single time I signed him out gear. It was the smallest font I'd ever seen on a uniform before.

[–] SeabassDan 1 points 8 months ago

Then you have those weird ones like "de Jesus" where it just doesn't make sense to be to have a preposition as part of your last name.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Same for my brother ha. His superiors actually just shorten it to one word when talking to him if it isn't super official.