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Content tagged with Adopted Child Novels
This is a list of notable people who have changed, adopted or adjusted their surnames based on a mother's or grandmother's maiden name. Included are people who changed their legal names and people who created personal or professional pseudonyms. Under longstanding Western custom and law, children are customarily given the father's surname, except for children born outside marriage, who often carry their mother's family names. In mediaeval times where a great family died out in the male line, an alternative male heir to the estates was selected as one of the younger sons of a daughter, who was required by the bequest to adopt, by royal licence, in lieu of his patronymic, his maternal surname and coat of arms for himself and his descendants. This was also the origin of double-barrelled surnames, where the paternal surname was partially retained, or resurrected by a later generation. The compliance with the terms of the bequest was essential to avoid challenge by another potential heir in the lawcourts. In the 1970s some women began to adopt their mother's maiden name as their legal surnames. People in Sweden have recently begun adopting maternal line surnames in an effort to broaden the number of last names in the country. Such practices add considerable difficulties to the study of genealogy and family history.
Social Romantic Urdu Novel Chand Raat Ka Haseen Milan
Famous Pakistani Urdu Novelist Qamrosh Shehk has written Chand Raat Ka Haseen Milan novel. We are here to discuss and recommend you all to read this complete novel. I hope you will enjoy reading and I also expect good feedback and reviews...
Social Romantic Urdu Novel Woh Sikandar Hai
Famous Pakistani Urdu novelist Effat Seher Tahir has written Woh Sikandar Hai novel. We are here to discuss and recommend you all to read this complete novel. I hope you will enjoy reading and I also expect good feedback and reviews from the readers...