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In 1971, he changed his name to Gordon Matta-Clark, adopting his mother's last name. [195] Gugu Mbatha-Raw, British actress, was born Gugulethu Sophia Mbatha, to Patrick Mbatha, a South African doctor, and Anne (née Raw), an English nurse. She later added her mother's surname to that of her father. [196] [197]
When a person (traditionally the wife in many cultures) assumes the family name of their spouse, in some countries that name replaces the person's previous surname, which in the case of the wife is called the maiden name ("birth name" is also used as a gender-neutral or masculine substitute for maiden name), whereas a married name is a family name or surname adopted upon marriage.
When the teen was about 8 or 9 years old, his father and stepmother tried to legally change his name but he told the judge that he wanted to keep his mother's last name.
The process of legally changing your name depends on your state's laws and the reason you are changing your name. Common reasons to legally change your name include marriage or divorce, gender ...
The court ruled: "Debtor's last name did not change when he crossed the border into the United States. The 'naming convention' is legally irrelevant[.]" [15] In other words, under the California implementation of the Uniform Commercial Code, the debtor's "true last name" was Juárez (his maternal surname). Using the full name, including both ...
When my partner divorced me, I wanted to take back my identity. I dropped their last name and returned to the one I gave myself as a teen.
Christina Haack has legally changed her last name back to her roots amid her ongoing divorce from Joshua Hall. “Officially a Haack ,” the Flip Off star, 41, wrote via her Instagram Stories on ...
In Islamic family law, the individual is required to keep the clan, tribal or ethnic affiliation of their father where it is known, whether the child be illegitimate, staying with their mother after divorce or adopted. The last name cannot be changed in such a way as to reflect a heritage that is not that of one's biological father.