In Re Hooper’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “The right of a woman to her birth-given name, notwithstanding marriage, is established under Florida Law. See Marshall v. State, 301 So.2d 477 (Fla. 1st DCA 1974); Davis v. Roos, 326 So.2d 226 (Fla. 3d DCA 1976). See also Egner v. Egner, 133 N.J.Super. 403 , 337 A.2d 46 (N.J.1975). Absent injury to the rights of others, there appears to be no reason why a woman’s failure to assert that right upon her marriage should prevent her from doing so later, i.e., at the time of her divorce or thereafter. A divorced mother’s remarriage apparently is “a substantial probability.” Egner, 337 A.2d at 48 . The dissimilarity of a divorced mother’s and her children’s names is not prohibited upon her remarriage and her assumption of her new husband’s name. Arnett v. Matthew, 259 So.2d 535 (Fla. 1st DCA 1972). Rela tive to the interests of the children, we can see no distinction between that situation and the facts of this case. Lazow v. Lazow, 147 So.2d 12 (Fla. 3d DCA 1962).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pilch v. Pilch