From: Daniel Calvelo Date: 2006-01-03T02:27:57+09:00 Subject: Re: The "ruby way" to break apart a name? And the only problems arise when one or both of paterno or materno is itself composite and non hyphenated. Right, Gerardo? In France, not only you *can* receive either your father's or mother's family name, but you can change your family when you marry, divorce remarry and so on.