CR-1 Last Name

[mapi 21]

8 minutes ago, pushbrk said:

Think of your own marriage.  You were (your name).  He or she was (their name).  You two got married.  Those are the names on the marriage certificate.  Those were your names AS YOU MARRIED.  Whether anybody's name EVER changes is a decision made AFTER the marriage.  Only pre-marriage names appear on marriage certificates because those are the names of the two people who married.

Ah great, that clarifies it.

I thought the Netherlands was unique in this and that other countries put the married name on there as well. In the Netherlands it states specifically "name before marriage" and "name after marriage". It also doesn't matter. It should work like this!

[pushbrk 12,898]

4 hours ago, mapi said:

Ah great, that clarifies it.

I thought the Netherlands was unique in this and that other countries put the married name on there as well. In the Netherlands it states specifically "name before marriage" and "name after marriage". It also doesn't matter. It should work like this!

I get it but the certificate still says who married whom.  If The Netherlands puts in an extra piece of data saying what the names will be going forward, that's great, but still "extra" compared to what's standard elsewhere.

[mapi 21]

1 minute ago, pushbrk said:

I get it but the certificate still says who married whom.  If The Netherlands puts in an extra piece of data saying what the names will be going forward, that's great, but still "extra" compared to what's standard elsewhere.

Completely true.

 

Still, that name will always be the same, since the Netherlands doesn't allow citizens to do a name change (only via governmental processes, unique cases).

[pushbrk 12,898]

1 minute ago, mapi said:

Completely true.

 

Still, that name will always be the same, since the Netherlands doesn't allow citizens to do a name change (only via governmental processes, unique cases).

Any legal name change anywhere in the world is a government process of some sort.  Some are simply very easy and others more difficult.