I know you did-n’t write the ar-ticle, but what’s with the hy-phen-ating every-thing?
(Is this a subtle dig at being a hyphenated American? I would have thought that at her age, she would have lost her hyphen by now.)
My wife and I are adopting two children, the girl wants to keep her last name (Lindsey) as a middle name and take our last name as her last name, which is perfectly fine with us. I've been very explicit all along the process that she have no hyphen between Lindsey and her new last name.
Watch the court or someone in the birth certificate office screw it up. Illinois is a liberal state and liberals seem to love those hyphenated names. If they do, I'll have to go back to court to get her birth certificate changed.
I hear they can get those repaired. Mebbe she's a retread.