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Originally posted by Kakero:
Overhere it is forbidden for the wife to take the husband surname. because it will be viewed as the brother marry his own sister. a very very bad thing.
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In Quebec (Canada), it's also illegal for a woman to take her husband's name. The reason is that they think it gets too confusing trying to keep track of the women after they marry!!!!
The law is actually really idiotic. For exemple, my wife and I married in Saskatchewan where she legally changed her last name to mine. We have two children bearing my last name - one of which changed his last name to match our last name after we got married. Once we moved to Quebec, the government would not recognize my wife's legal name (my last name) and forced her to change it back to her maiden name... even if she never lived here before!!!
They actually wanted our son to change his last name to his original birthname too (different from my wife's maiden name as she was married once before me)... we managed for him to keep his name but they just refused for my wife to keep mine.