Published: March 24, 2019
Victorian Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages had assigned child’s surname after parents failed to agree on one
A 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.
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