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House approves bill allowing married women to retain maiden surnames


The House of Representatives on Wednesday approved on third and final reading the measure providing the right of married women to retain their maiden surnames.

With 227 affirmative votes, House Bill 10459 was approved during the plenary session. The bill also seeks to amend for the purpose Art. 370 of Republic Act 386, otherwise known as the “New Civil Code of the Philippines.”

This measure aims to provide equality between men and women before the law by allowing married women to retain their maiden surnames.

It upholds the right of married women to retain their maiden surnames even after marriage and provides married women options in the surname that they may use after marriage.

Under the measure, a married woman may use her:

  • Maiden first name and surname;
  • Maiden first name and surname and add her husband's surname;
  • Maiden first name and her husband's surname; or
  • Husband's full name, but prefixing a word indicating that she is his wife, such as "Mrs."

-NB, GMA News

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