Posted by Yuchtar on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/RE-CC-AOK-tp1489003p1489055.html

Suzanne Sutherland wrote:

> In message <[hidden email]>, [hidden email] writes
> >In a message dated 7/25/00 8:45:35 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [hidden email]
> >writes:
>
> > A question for you Brits,
> >would Johnny automatically get Rutland's name when Mary remarried, the way it
> >is in the States?
>
> Simple answer....no.

Well, a child doesn't *automatically* take his mom's new husband's name
when they marry here either - doesn't he have to adopt the child in
order for an official name change to occur?

Maybe Rutland just *called* Johnny by his name rather than it being
official ...

-- Y

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