During the late 60s and the decade of the 70s, women who married retained their maiden names more often than they did in prior years. Sometimes the couple hyphenated their surnames during those times, but in a lot of cases the non-traditionalist wife simply carried on the surname that her parents used. (Last year, a […]
Inconvenient Bank Accounts; Family Rift
Back in the 1990s, Mrs. Bivins, a widow from New York, lived near the Gables. She had two daughters, one who lived in New York with her husband, a doctor, and another, a single, working mom, a widow herself, who lived in West Miami with her two sons. The New York daughter and her husband […]