Gubernat v. Deremer

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• describing history of surnames and connecting tradition with emergence of women’s legal and social rights
• “[W]e adopt a strong presumption in favor of the surname chosen by the custodial parent.”
• “A woman as soon as she is married, is called covert * * * that is, ‘veiled’; as it were, clouded and overshadowed.” (internal quotation marks omitted; emphasis in original)
• rejecting the “presumption” that children must bear their fathers’ surnames

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).