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2019 New Jersey Revised Statutes
Title 2A - Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice
Section 2A:34-21 - Surname.
Universal Citation: NJ Rev Stat § 2A:34-21 (2019)
2A:34-21 Surname.
2A:34-21. Surname.
The court, upon or after granting a divorce from the bonds of matrimony to either spouse or dissolution of a civil union to either partner in a civil union couple, may allow either spouse or partner in a civil union couple to resume any name used by the spouse or partner in a civil union couple before the marriage or civil union, or to assume any surname.
Amended 1988, c.153, s.2; 2006, c.103, s.77.
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