Sometime in the middle of August 2007, my wife wanted her maiden name changed from “Small” to her ex-husband’s, “Woodland”. She always said her last name was Woodland when people asked. I didn’t like it, as it was very odd, and just her saying “Woodland” all the time only added to the confusion when people started digging further. However, I helped her go through it. We found that she could do it for $139 with LegalZoom

One of the things that was eating at me is the a few years prior, she said she was going to change her last name to my own, and this felt insulting. From the stories she told me about her ex-husband, he had driven her to the point of attempting suicide.