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[quote=Anonymous][quote] I kept my name and my kids have my DH's last name. I agree with you, and it was a difficult decision for me 20 years ago when my first child was born. At that time I didn't want to hyphenate (I thought it would be a pain), so we had to choose one or the other. There wasn't any real reason to prioritize one of our names over the other, and it definitely was ''easier" to give them DH's last name (in terms of dealing with the ILs). So we gave DC1 my last name as a middle name and DH's last name as a surname, and did the same with our subsequent children. If I were doing it today, I'd hyphenate. My kids go/went to a high school with a large Hispanic population, so hyphenated names are very common. [/quote] This sums up my situation. I never wanted to change my name, and I have never had any problems with refinancing, house buying or anything else like that. Nobody has ever questioned whether my kids were mine, either. [/quote]
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