Court Opinion

ID: 9616549
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 04:47:40.134631+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:03:58.786114
License: Public Domain

Clark, Judge,
concurring:
Though concurring in the result and also the conclusion- of the majority that a married woman may change- her name as provided by Chapter 101 of- the General Statutes of - North Carolina, I do not agree that she is under no legal compulsion to assume her husband’s surname. That upon marriage the wife by operation of law takes the husband’s surname- is based'on *229cüst’ofn extending backfor centuries into tbe heritage of western civilization. It has ripened into a common law rule that has been generally recognized by the states, including by implication the State of North Carolina. See generally Forbush v. Wallace, 341 F. Supp. 217 (M.D. Ala. 1971) ; 2 Lee, N. C. Family Law, § 221 (3d ed. 1963) ; Annot., 35 A.L.R. 417 (1925) ; 57 Am. Jur. 2d, Name, § 9 (1971); 65 C.J.S., Names, § 3(c) (1966).