Question 9817 — marital status

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Under the terms of article 225-1 of the civil code, each of the spouses may bear, for customary purposes, the name of the other spouse by substitution or addition to their own name in the order they choose, which thus places the spouses in the same rank of equality. The Ministry of Justice is fully aware that the use of the husband's name by the wife is much more widespread than that of the wife's name and that a change in mentalities is taking place. necessarily over time. However, various communication actions were carried out. Indeed, the rules for devolution of the name and the use of the user name to individuals are reminded both on the servicepublic.fr site (the official site of the French administration allowing you to know your rights and carry out various procedures) and on the justice.fr site (a new official website of the Ministry of Justice to improve access to justice) on which a practical sheet entitled “User name: use of the name of one's husband or wife” has been posted online. Furthermore, for administrations, several already old circulars (notably the circulars of June 26, 1986 and November 4, 1987) had been distributed and specified that the interested party must make an express request for the use of a customary name to administration and that on administrative forms, it must be indicated, under the “user name” section, that this mention is optional. Furthermore, the circular of February 21, 2012 further instructed the removal of the term “maiden name” from administrative forms and correspondence. More recently, an online service accessible on the service-public.fr platform for Health Insurance and the Family Allowance Fund has been developed in order to make a declaration of change of name of use, in particular in order to withdraw the use of the name of the husband or wife.

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