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[quote=Anonymous]My mom hyphenated when she married my stepdad and it was a PITA. Never, that I recall, with me and my brother (and we had my fathers name, so totally different) and her status as our mom.

But she was very "oh whatever" about it, never corrected people/organizations, and did not do a thorough job of changing it everywhere, wasn't consistent about whether or not she kept her middle name, plus some organizations didn't have a hyphen (this was the early 90s) and some replaced with a space and some just smooshed her name together and so her name was slightly different EVERYWHERE. I remember one year she got something like 12 jury duty summonses with 12 slightly different names. At one point the DMV had it wrong and she lost her passport and couldn't find her social security card and I swear it was like she was an undocumented immigrant for a year. Took so much effort to get it all straightened out. She's a professional, high earning, smart woman, but not so good with details.

So my big take away was that if you're changing your name (or not changing your name) make sure ALL the official stuff (who cares what people actually call you) is the same everywhere. Presumably at this point every org can handle hyphens now. [/quote]

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