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Can you keep your married name after you have divorced?

36 replies

Melly · 02/08/2006 12:37

I know this is probably a really daft question but I have no diea and don't really know anyone to ask. Should have asked the solicitor but forgot!

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cupcakes · 02/08/2006 14:51

Alexis Morell Carrington Colby Dexter Rowan kept all her husbands names.

Misspiggy · 02/08/2006 14:53

Melly, similarly to what other posters have said, I kept my married name (despite hating it with a vengeance!)after my divorce so that me and the children had the same name.

Chandra · 02/08/2006 14:59

I have heard of a Johnny Outrageous..... can't get it, really... that's like requesting your name to be changed because you are named John Sht, and then choose Peter Sht to replace it.

eidsvold · 02/08/2006 23:03

I did as I had just finished getting all my id - drivers licence, passport etc changed into my married name - but called myself Ms instead of Mrs.

muma3 · 02/08/2006 23:30

i use my maiden name for some things and my married name for others . some things i never changed and always had as my maiden name and some things i have changed back from my married name to my maiden name .

3 children have different names and my maiden name is different further

muma3 · 02/08/2006 23:31

am now ms too

Linnet · 02/08/2006 23:59

My mum kept her married name after she and my dad divorced.

My Mother in law also still goes by her married name even though she's been divorced for years.

A couple of friends of mine though changed back to their maiden names after they got divorced I think it's just preference.

jasper · 03/08/2006 00:06

Yes you can.
I have a fab surname from my exhusband and plan on keeping it forever.

crabbitexpat · 05/08/2006 13:17

I kept mine. We had two children together, and while it wasn't important to ME I felt like it was important to them. Well, that and I couldn't be bothered to change drivers license, passport, etc!

edam · 05/08/2006 13:40

The very old-fashioned rules of ettiquette were that a married woman's formal name - the one you use for addressing envelopes and so on - was Mrs husband's first name husbands surname - so Mrs Peter Smith. And if they got divorced, she was Mrs her first name his surname, so Mrs Jane Smith. Some very elderly relatives do address me as Mrs his first name his surname, even though I kept my own surname when we got married!

You can keep a married name forever if you like, even if you are divorced.

Gobbledigook · 05/08/2006 13:41

My friends around my age have gone back to maiden names but my MIL still has her married name but has been divorced for about 20 years. My aunt is the same.

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