"Goulsquash;c-16617659" wrote:
Also keep in mind that the setting is customizable on both husband/wife and same gender marriages, so you can still get hyphenated names on same gender marriages if you dont change the setting for both.
Though as someone with a real life hyphenated name, y'all are a bunch of haters :D
I have a hyphenated last name too. It's one of the worst mistakes I've ever made in my life. So many businesses' computers can't handle hyphenated names, my name has been slaughtered in many ways. One time when we were refinancing our mortgage, the papers we had to sign had this long list of all the ways my name appeared incorrectly on my credit report, and they wanted me to sign them all according to how my name was slaughtered all those times. I told them I only have one signature, and it's the only one I use, no matter how badly some company slaughters my name.
Recently, I was denied an application to open a savings account because they couldn't confirm my identity. I'm pretty sure it's because Transunion's computers can't handle hyphenated names. Way back when I started getting the free annual credit reports, I signed up for an account with Transunion, so I could check or correct my credit report online. It accepted my hyphenated name as my user name, and allowed me to create the account. But when I went back, months later, to actually use the account, it said that "special characters" are not allowed in user names. It allowed me to use the hyphen to create the account, but will not allow me to use it to log in.
If I had it to do over again, I'd skip the hyphen and just take my husband's last name.
