Ladies! Will you be changing your name when you get married? Poll.

I decided quite quickly against double barrelling mostly because the combination of our two names is really silly. I also considered just keeping my maiden name however I grew up in a family where my married parents each kept their own name and I didn't like the fact that my mum had a different name to me. I also don't have a huge issue with taking my husbands name as I don't have a real attachment to my maiden name (very common).

I love silly double barrelled names! My friend suggested me and my ex got married to become the 'Bland-Munton's which is clearly horrific.

Thanks for the correction, however, in the bit you quoted you can still see how that applies to only spouse or civil partner. If you're not married you get nothing. If you're unmarried but have children, I suppose it'll go to the children anyway and you can get your share back from them - but what if you don't have kids yet? THen you've got no rights.
Yes, I'm sure there are ways around all these things without marriage, but simply marriage does it all for you. So why not get married, and just do things how you want (keep your name if you want, etc)?

What I meant to express was the fact that marriage does not do it all for you. Whether you are married or not you need to write a will.

Married people, because the rules of intestacy preclude the spouse from inheriting all the estate and of course give no indication of any specific gifts. Unmarried people of course need to write a will to express their wishes. On the other hand marriage may stop you from leaving your estate where you will as a spouse may appeal through the courts if they are excluded.

In monied families assets are often held within trusts which may be there precisely to stop a spouse inheriting the capital and thus alienating it from the family.

In addition nowadays people may have property abroad and marriage, will or no will, may not help you at all as the rules of that country will apply. So, in France, I believe, the property goes to the children. British people often expect that inheritance rules are the same abroad as here and it comes as nasty shock when they discover they are not even in ex colonies.

I quite like the idea of picking an entirely new name. Avoids this issue and symbolises a new part of life beginning.

Hmm, never thought of that before.

Talk about being different

Thatn would be quite cool actually.

I quite like the idea of picking an entirely new name. Avoids this issue and symbolises a new part of life beginning.

My husband suggested this but he'd only come up with joke names

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wait a min.... Does this mean anarchism101 is female?

What's up with the kisses?

I end every post with kisses, it's like part of my signature... Unless I really dislike someone's posts. Partly it's habit. Also, it shows that I don't have a malicious intent with messages that are part of debates or question something, since it's so easy to misread intent on a forum but it would be a bit odd to only add them to posts that were ambiguous and not those which are clearly nice.

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Now I'm self conscious about it!!!

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I thought I was getting special treatment.