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[naturegirl321]

[Ariadne]

Naturegirl...
In regards to women changing their names you said it, "...would be like saying that I think it wouldn't work out." I disagree completely. I had a perfectly good name when I got married and there was no reason to change it. My husband didn't change his name either. We've been married for nearly 34 years and we have always expected to be married, well, forever.

Do most women in Peru change their names when they marry? I thought women often used their birth names.

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[naturegirl321]

All Peruvians have two last names
Father's and MOther's

When they get married, they drop their mother's add de and their husband's father's name

Example
Maria Seminario Garcia marries Jose Gonzalez Valladeres

She'd then be Maria Seminaro de Gonzalez

[MO39]

In Mexico, most married women who have some sort of professional or semi-professional job don't use their husband's last name ("de Garc�a, for example) for work or activities related to their jobs.

[naturegirl321]

Same here, most poeple call me Senor Jose for example and women Senora Maria or Senorita Maria. They don't use last names too much.

[MO39]

[MELEE]

The OP should put divorced, because that easily explains differences of her names on her passport and birth cert. It's rare that her degrees are in the married name, it's common for degrees to be in the maiden name. In Mexico there really isn't any stigma for being divorced these days.
If your son/daughter is grown I don't see any need to mention him/her.

I'm with Ariadne, I didn't change my name and I don't see the point. Here in Mexico it actually would have been a headache. Some Mexican women are known as de husband's lastname, but that's not their official name. It's just because they want people to know who their husband is (like the president's wife for example) but that's not their legal name, in Mexico legal name changes are a nightmare (I know because my husband looked into it) and you are also not allowed to choose your children's last names. We wanted my husband's mother's lastname to be our daughter's lastnames because he doesn't know his father, we were told under no circumstances was it permisable for us to decide what their last name was to be, the state decides.

[naturegirl321]

I would say the same goes for Peru, I've got two last names, but my husband would just say the first one. And as for business cards, I'd ony put my father's last name., so I'd sounds more foreign, but on my tax invoices, I have both last names.

[SandyG20]

Actually it is very common in the states for degrees to have the married last name. Women graduate from college in their early 20s. Then you have women getting Masters and Phds at late 20 or early 30s. And just think how many older people are going to college at a later age in life. I quess I will put single, no dependents. If asked about name differences then I will say I am divorced. Like many have said the main thing they want to know is if I will be bringing a spouse or children with me overseas. I will be primarily applying in Asian countries. I don't know how common divorce is in those areas.

[MELEE]

I guess it must be regional. No one I know back in the US got married until their mid-to-late 30s after tehy were done with all their education. I do know of some who didn't go to college at all and got married younger, but not among the people I know well.

[sarahg]