divorced but keeping ex's surname, do i use Ms or Miss or Mrs???????

[princessdaisyboo]

hi
im recently divorced but have decided to keep ex's surname as we have dd with his surname, but do i revert back to a miss or do i become a Ms or do i have to still say Mrs???

[oldraver]

Whatever you choose to do, its entirely up to you

[MamaLazarou]

Whatever you like - there are no rules.

[ObsidianBlackbirdMcNight]

Whatever you want. I would be Ms personally, as it doesn't allude to your marital status. Miss and Mrs are a bit inaccurate I think.

But I'm a lifelong Ms anyway

[princessdaisyboo]

ok ill be a mysterious Ms for now, until some gorgeous sexy fun kind man comes along and asks me to marry him!!! ha ha

[twigsblankets]

I might have this totally wrong, but aren't you legally obliged to revert to Miss or at least call yourself Ms after a divorce, for tax and possibly benefit purposes?

I might be way off the mark, but my friend preferred her married name, so kept it, yet when she was unemployed, and went to jobcentre for JSA, the jobcentre explained that legally, she wasn't married any longer, so Mrs B no longer existed, therefore it could be construed as a fraudulent claim if it was not as a Miss or Ms.

Like I said though, I could be totally wrong, and apologies in advance if I am.

[CantThinkofFunnyName]

Nope - not legally obliged - as other posters said, entirely up to you. I don't think though you CAN revert to Miss and keep the marital surname because that is incorrect.

I have been divorced twice and in both cases kept the marital name but used the title Ms....

[twigsblankets]

Ahhh, maybe that's where I was getting confused.

I think my friend told jobcentre her name was Miss B, when in fact, she used her married surname, but used the title Miss.

[ObsidianBlackbirdMcNight]

jobcentreplus talk out of their arses on most subjects. You can call yourself whatever you want.

[bigstripeytiger]

Im sure that you can use miss, ms or mrs, though I think that it wouldnt be logical to keep the married name and use 'miss'.

[Parmageddon]

I started calling myself "Ms" when I first was divorced. But I got so bored of constantly being asked "is that Mrs?" when I gave my surname, that I gave up and used Mrs. It doesn't really seem to matter that much to me now!