Upon divorce from the bond of marriage, the court shall, on request of a party who assumed a new name on marriage and desires to discontinue using it, state in the decree of divorce either the birth-given or other previous name which such person desires to use.
D.C. Code § 16-915
Change of name on divorce
Dec. 23, 1963, Pub
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