It’s amazing the small ways that the culture’ s inequalities show themselves. In this case, a man decided to take his wife’s last name, because he was a lot closer to her father than his own. But there is no bureaucratic pathway for such thing – as there is for women to change their names when they get married – so he had to go through a formal name change (much as trans people do).
It’s always a similar feeling, for me, when we fill out our taxes, and I have to remember I’m the spouse, and not Betty.
(thanks to Lena, as usual, for the interesting link)