When you a man and a woman get married, you the woman traditionally take takes your the husbands husband's [possessive - apostrophe is needed] name surname or family name or last name , but if a the husband wants to take their the wife wife's [possessive needed] name surname or family name or last name , they have just as much the right to take their wife's name as their wife has the right to take their husband's name even though it isn't standard this is also permitted or this is also allowed .
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