hyphenated surname

Hyphenated Surname Pros and Cons: What Real Filipina Brides Say

A hyphenated surname in the Philippines allows a married woman to keep her maiden name and add her husband’s surname with a hyphen, for example, Maria Santos-Reyes. The biggest pro is keeping your identity and maiden name on official IDs and documents. The biggest cons are a longer name that causes formatting problems on government […]

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