Victorian father loses legal battle to stop child having hyphenated surname
(The Guardian World News)

Victorian Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages had assigned child´s surname after parents failed to agree on oneA Victorian father has lost a legal battle to prevent his child from having a hyphenated combination of his parents´ surnames, with authorities ruling in favour of the double-barrelled last name.The child was born in 2015 but the parents´ inability to agree on the surname resulted in the Victorian Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages last year assigning a surname using both parents´ surnames hyphenated in alphabetical order, with the mother´s first and father´s second. Continue reading...