Can someone explain this conversation re certificates

[merryhow]

Both my married daughters use their maiden surnames. The only thing that I can think of that links them to their husbands names is their marriage certificates.

Val

[andrewalston]

Presumably this ill-informed jobsworth has started legal proceedings against Tony Blair's wife, who practises law under her maiden name of Cherie Booth.

 

[ThrelfallYorky]

Many women continue to use their original surname after marriage - and on Bank Accounts, etc. Why should it be any problem at all?

[Chilternbirder]

Many women continue to use their original surname after marriage - and on Bank Accounts, etc. Why should it be any problem at all?

Can be an issue if mother travels abroad with children whose own passports are in the father's name. I have heard of this being interpreted at borders as a possible abduction.

[pharmaT]

Many women continue to use their original surname after marriage - and on Bank Accounts, etc. Why should it be any problem at all?

Can be an issue if mother travels abroad with children whose own passports are in the father's name. I have heard of this being interpreted at borders as a possible abduction.

That's write I have been told I cannot take my children on holiday abroad without written permission from their father.  Just as well I cannot afford to go abroad.

[Mike in Cumbria]

I want to change it completely but thought I'd do it at work first, my bank consider it a "serious criminal offence" for a married woman to use her maiden name.  Their words not mine. 

Are you sure you weren't talking to the cleaner? This is garbage, and it's hard to imagine a trained bank employee saying something as stupid as this.

[LizzieL]

Many women continue to use their original surname after marriage - and on Bank Accounts, etc. Why should it be any problem at all?

Can be an issue if mother travels abroad with children whose own passports are in the father's name. I have heard of this being interpreted at borders as a possible abduction.

We have a Dutch friend who has lived and worked in Britain for over 20 years but was not married to her British partner (at the time) with whom she has two children. She was detained at UK border when bringing her children back into UK after a visit to their Dutch grandparents. The children have British passports and use their father's surname. Annoying experience for her, but very frightening for two young teen children. Because of Brexit, she has recently married her partner.

[eadaoin]

Can be an issue if mother travels abroad with children whose own passports are in the father's name. I have heard of this being interpreted at borders as a possible abduction.

That's write I have been told I cannot take my children on holiday abroad without written permission from their father.  Just as well I cannot afford to go abroad.

my daughter just brings her son's birth cert when they travel without her husband.