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		</div><p>Germany’s justice minister has launched plans to relax the country’s strict restrictions on family names — for example allowing couples to take double-barrelled surnames and pass them on to their children.</p>
<p>The current system “is about as up-to-date as a coal stove and as flexible as concrete”, German justice minister Marco Buschmann said in a statement as he published the draft legislation.</p>
<p>As it stands, one partner in a married couple – but not both – can add the other partner’s name to his or her surname but their children cannot carry both surnames.</p>
<p>The reform will allow both partners to take on a double surname, with or without a hyphen, and for their children to take that name too.</p>
<p>Even if the parents both keep their original names, they will be able to give their children a double-barrelled surname, regardless of whether they are married. The new system will not allow names that are more than double-barrelled.</p>
<p>Mr Buschmann also foresees making it easier for stepchildren or children of divorced parents to change their family names.</p>
<p>And he wants to allow the use of gender-adjusted forms of surnames for people with names from languages in which that is common — a change that would, for example, benefit the Sorbs, an indigenous Slavic minority in parts of eastern Germany.</p>
<p>The legislation, which is supposed to take effect at the beginning of 2025, requires the approval of the Cabinet and parliament.</p>
<p>It is one of several social reform projects that German chancellor Olaf Scholz’s socially liberal three-party governing coalition agreed to embark on when it took office in December 2021.</p>
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