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As far as I know in the Netherlands (I work at a family court) people always get the name they had before they married back. In Germany a woman’s name changes legally when she marries and she can’t get it back, or at least a lot don’t. That’s why, in my region, there are a lot of divorces of women whose first marriage was in Germany whose names look like first-husband-name, born birth-name. Like Jansen geboren Pieters. It gets really complicated when people marry multiple times in countries where women’s names legally change to that of their husbands.
Actually it is not automaitc anymore then when one marries in Germany that a woman takes the name of her husband. She can decide if she wants to change her name to her husbands name, if she keeps her name or if she wants a double-name. Of course it is the same for the husband.
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