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Hello,
I have been searching through some old forums and on the internet for advice but have not found anything too specific to my situation. I am getting married the summer between 1st and 2nd year of vet school and am having a dilemma with how to change my name.
I want to take my husbands name for personal reasons, but a part of me wants to keep my maiden name to have on my diploma and maybe practice under.
The issue I have is that my maiden name sounds VERY similar to my future husband's first name, so if I hyphenated my new last name it wound sound too much like "firstname-hislastname" and it would be long. The names just don't sound or look good together hyphenated.
I also thought about making my maiden name a 2nd middle name instead and take his last name to be my new last name.
I guess my question is, as a DVM could you practice under your maiden name if it's your middle name and have clients call you Dr. MaidenName and you sign documents as Firstname MiddleName MaidenName Hislastname, DVM. ?
Sorry if that sounded confusing. Thank you.
I have been searching through some old forums and on the internet for advice but have not found anything too specific to my situation. I am getting married the summer between 1st and 2nd year of vet school and am having a dilemma with how to change my name.
I want to take my husbands name for personal reasons, but a part of me wants to keep my maiden name to have on my diploma and maybe practice under.
The issue I have is that my maiden name sounds VERY similar to my future husband's first name, so if I hyphenated my new last name it wound sound too much like "firstname-hislastname" and it would be long. The names just don't sound or look good together hyphenated.
I also thought about making my maiden name a 2nd middle name instead and take his last name to be my new last name.
I guess my question is, as a DVM could you practice under your maiden name if it's your middle name and have clients call you Dr. MaidenName and you sign documents as Firstname MiddleName MaidenName Hislastname, DVM. ?
Sorry if that sounded confusing. Thank you.