resume one's birth name
Source: BUS Rheinland-PfalzYou have divorced or ended your civil partnership and would like to change your name? If your maiden name or name before marriage or civil partnership was not your family name (married name or partnership name), you have the following options:
- You can revert to your maiden name or the name you used until your married name was determined.
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You may prefix or append the following names to the married name:
- Your maiden name or
- the name used at the time of the declaration on the determination of the married name.
- You can discard a companion name prefixed or appended during the marriage.