Man files suit to ease process of taking wife's name

Hmmmm....not sure what to think of this. I suppose if I had a name like Buday I would certainly consider it though. Interesting little read though and something I've never really thought about from the legal standpoint.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mike Buday isn’t married to his last name. In fact, he and his fiancee decided before they wed that he would take hers.

But Buday was stunned to learn that he couldn’t simply become Mike Bijon when they married in 2005.

As in most other states, that would require some bureaucratic paperwork well beyond what a woman must go through to change her name when marrying.

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