[Culturechat] Married names in CH

[Hal Taussig]

Thanks Vance. I'm sure I speak for many: we've very much missed this kind 
of material in culture chat in recent months.
Hal.


At 05:07 PM 5/13/03 +0200, VCR wrote:
>  In CH, when a couple gets married, they have a choice of four ways to be 
> surnamed.
>
>If Mary Smith marries Joe Jones, they can have the following to choose:
>
>1. All, including children have the name Jones.
>
>2. All, including children are named Smith. This requires a premarital 
>permit by the Kanton, and the husband would be named Jones-Smith.
>
>3. Mary can keep her name and be called Mary Smith-Jones. Children would 
>only have the name Jones.
>
>4. The whole group can be named Jones-Smith, but not for public documents 
>unless a formal change is made.
>
>--
>
>
>Vance Roy
>gigli.saw@dplanet.ch
>
>"Never under estimate the ingenuity of the stupid."
>Anon.
>
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