Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 767 - Actions affecting the family.
767.395 - Name of spouse.

767.395 Name of spouse. Except as provided in s. 301.47, the court, upon granting a divorce, shall allow either spouse, upon request, to resume a former legal surname, if any.
History: 1975 c. 94; 1979 c. 32 s. 50; Stats. 1979 s. 767.20; 2003 a. 52; 2005 a. 443 s. 78; Stats. 2005 s. 767.395.
Women's Names in Wisconsin: In Re Petition of Kruzel. MacDougall. WBB Aug. 1975.

Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations

Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations

Chapter 767 - Actions affecting the family.

767.001 - Definitions.

767.005 - Scope.

767.01 - Jurisdiction.

767.041 - Full faith and credit; comity.

767.055 - Uniform Divorce Recognition Act.

767.105 - Information from the office of family court commissioner.

767.117 - Prohibited acts during pendency of action.

767.127 - Financial disclosure.

767.13 - Impoundment of record.

767.14 - Change of address.

767.16 - Circuit court commissioner or law partner; when interested; procedure.

767.17 - De novo review.

767.18 - Actions to affirm marriage.

767.201 - Civil procedure generally governs.

767.205 - Parties; title of actions.

767.215 - Initiating action; petition and response.

767.217 - Notice to Child Support Program.

767.225 - Orders during pendency of action.

767.235 - Trial or hearing on judgment.

767.241 - Award of attorney fees and other fees and costs.

767.251 - Content, preparation, and approval of judgment.

767.264 - Dismissal; vacation; substitution or withdrawal of attorney.

767.273 - Allowances pending appeal.

767.281 - Filing procedures and orders for enforcement or modification of judgments or orders.

767.301 - Residence requirements.

767.313 - Annulment.

767.315 - Grounds for divorce and legal separation.

767.317 - Defenses abolished.

767.323 - Suspension of proceedings to effect reconciliation.

767.331 - Actions for certain interspousal remedies.

767.333 - Initial orders based on stipulation prior to judgment.

767.335 - Waiting period for final hearing or trial.

767.34 - Court-approved stipulation.

767.35 - Judgment of divorce or legal separation.

767.36 - Copies of judgment to parties.

767.375 - Effect on transfers at death.

767.385 - Maintenance, legal custody, and support when divorce or separation denied.

767.395 - Name of spouse.

767.401 - Educational programs and classes.

767.405 - Family court services.

767.407 - Guardian ad litem for minor children.

767.41 - Custody and physical placement.

767.43 - Visitation rights of certain persons.

767.44 - Prohibiting visitation or physical placement if a parent kills other parent.

767.451 - Revision of legal custody and physical placement orders.

767.461 - Revisions agreed to by stipulation.

767.471 - Enforcement of physical placement orders.

767.481 - Relocating a child's residence.

767.501 - Actions to compel support.

767.511 - Child support.

767.513 - Child health care expenses.

767.521 - Action by state for child support.

767.531 - Family support.

767.54 - Required exchange of financial information.

767.55 - Child support: employment-related orders.

767.553 - Annual adjustments in support orders.

767.56 - Maintenance.

767.57 - Maintenance, child support, and family support payments; fees.

767.58 - Notice of change of employer, address, and ability to pay; other information.

767.59 - Revision of support and maintenance orders.

767.61 - Property division.

767.63 - Disposed assets may be subject to division.

767.70 - Child support enforcement: notice and service of process.

767.71 - Reconciling percentage-expressed support orders.

767.73 - Delinquent child or family support; suspension of operating privilege.

767.75 - Assignment of income for payment obligations.

767.76 - Account transfers.

767.77 - Enforcement of payment obligations.

767.78 - Enforcement; contempt proceedings.

767.80 - Determination of paternity.

767.803 - Determination of marital children.

767.804 - Genetic test results.

767.805 - Voluntary acknowledgment of paternity.

767.813 - Summons.

767.814 - Names on pleadings after paternity determined.

767.815 - Enlargement of time in a paternity proceeding.

767.82 - Paternity procedures.

767.83 - Right to counsel.

767.84 - Genetic tests in paternity actions.

767.85 - Temporary orders.

767.853 - Paternity hearings and records; confidentiality.

767.855 - Dismissal if adjudication not in child's best interest.

767.86 - Time of first appearance.

767.863 - First appearance.

767.865 - Deceased respondent.

767.87 - Testimony and evidence relating to paternity.

767.88 - Pretrial paternity proceedings.

767.883 - Trial.

767.89 - Paternity judgment.

767.893 - Default and stipulated judgments.

767.895 - Motion to reopen judgment based on statement acknowledging paternity.