"Both spouses keep their birth names after marriage and continue to exercise their civil rights under that name, i.e. they must use their birth name in contracts, on credit cards, on their driver's licence, etc. However, women are free however to assume their husband's name socially. Women married before April 2, 1981 who already use their husband's last name to exercise their civil rights may continue to do so." (Quebec Ministry of Justice)
CTV.ca article on marital name change in Quebec (2007)
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I've seen this in action! The reason for it is the high divorce rate (70%) in Quebec, and the lawyers got sick of changing everyone's names around for marriages then undoing it a short while later! I don't blame them!
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