On 2021-04-27 10:42 a.m., Boron Elgar wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 14:21:58 -0000 (UTC), Mike Duffy

>> It's extra useless paperwork to change a driver's permit, health card, an
>> extra form to do on both the federal & provincial taxes. Also accounts at
>> your banks, &c. I'm not sure if it makes paperwork easier for your
>> heirs / executors.
>
> The paperwork involved was certainly burdensome and one of two main
> reasons I did not change my name. The other was that I had an
> established name/reputation in my career and I saw no reason to change
> my "branding," as it were.


If it is troublesome and time consuming to change to the husbands' name
it's a good thing my SiL only did it on the first one. Like my wife,
she was happy to dump the Dutch name. She got into the acting business
after her divorce and kept her married named for the sake of her career.
She did not change to the first common law's the second, third or
fourth marriages.