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The only problem we've run into since then was when my daughter was born. My wife wanted her to have my last name. But when I went to the city hall, I was told that my daughter could only take the family name on the Juminhyo (family registry), which still had my wife's last name. So here we are now. My wife has her original family name. My daughter has her mother's name. I have my orignal family name. And just so the U.S. immigration officials won't get confused, I gave my daughter my last name as her middle name on her American passport."
In Japan, when a marriage with children legally dissolves, full parental custody and authority is awarded to only one parent. Moreover, this custody ruling creates complete legal separation of the non-custodial parent from his or her biological children.
hypothetically speaking scenario 1: if a foreigner(keeping his/her surname) and Jp partner divorces, Jp court will give to jp parent who has jp "surname"? hypothetically speaking scenario 2: when divorce outside jp, one Jp parent "abduct child back to Jp, then the Hague convention that Jp refuse to sign will kick in. Non-Jp surname parent will be left high and dried?
I am wondering if Jp official don't enforce non-Jp to change the surname for a reason?
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