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"   Here&amp;#039;s how relationships traditionally work: Man meets woman. Man and woman get married. Woman takes man&amp;#039;s last name. But, what happens when a man opts to take his wife&amp;#039;s last name? Well, if he&amp;#039;s in Florida, his driver&amp;#039;s license is suspended. That&amp;#039;s exactly what happened to real estate investor Lazaro Sopena when he married his wife Hanh Dinh in 2011. The Cuba native opted to take his lady&amp;#039;s last name to help her family carry on their Vietnamese heritage. Everything was fine for a while, until he received a letter from the Florida DMV accusing him of &amp;quot;obtaining a driving license by fraud.&amp;quot; Naturally, Lazaro was like &amp;quot;oh, hell no&amp;quot; and called the DMV to contest his license suspension. Officials told him he had to go through the courts and change his name\u2014at a cost of $400\u2014because the simple last name change after you get married &amp;quot;only works for women.&amp;quot; Currently, only nine states\u2014California, New York, Hawaii, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Oregon, Iowa, Georgia, and North Dakota\u2014allow men to change their names after marriage. Why so few? Not cool\u2014there should be equality all around. Plus, we like the idea of a guy changing his last name to his wife&amp;#039;s if he wants to\u2014it&amp;#039;s 2013, we should have the right. Want more from Meagan? Follow her on Twitter. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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