While this may seem to many a fairly trivial issue, it is one which can cause significant and unnecessary stress to both the parents and children. If one wishes to follow the tradition, then in the majority of cases the children retain the father’s surname as was probably the case prior to separation.
However, in today’s society spouses very often retain their maiden name, and in many marriages some form of hyphenated surname adopting both parents’ surname has become fashionable. Following separation, not only do the assets get divided, but so does the hyphenated surname.
