Is a person who has previously assumed her spouse's name as a pen or theatre name for a long-term relationship with another person's true name?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from O'Connell-Hord v. Hord, 1981 CanLII 2855 (ON SC):
Once, however, a person assumes the name of her spouse on marriage, the assumed name becomes a "true" name (as opposed to a pen or theatre-name). In The King v. Inhabitants of Burton-upon-Trent (1815), 3 M. & S. 537, 105 E.R. 712, Lord Ellenborough C.J. stated: "But where a name has been previously assumed so as to have become the name which the party has acquired by reputation, that is, within the meaning of the Marriage Act, the party's true name."
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