A married woman’s birth name is her legal surname.1 Marriage does not change her legal surname.2 The divorce petition and judgment should be drafted to confirm your client’s birth name if she wishes to resume use of that name.3
- 1La. C.C.P. art. 3947(B).
- 2Id.
- 3For additional information regarding name confirmation following divorce, see Section 3.10.4 of the chapter on family law.