Surname law matronym from the name of a parent or parent-in-law; these possibilities are not necessarily open to native Icelanders. Reza Shah Pahlavi ordered Iranians to adopt Western style surnames in place of old Islamic names and titles during his reign. A law in Japan dating from 1896 requires a married couple to have a common surname. Most commonly it was the wife who took her husband's name. In 2011, this law was challenged as unconstitutional on gender equality grounds, but the Supreme Court of Japan upheld the law in 2015. Prussia tasked the implementation of surnames to E. T. A. Hoffmann.
LGBT rights in New South Wales as well as to adopt their partner's children (step-child adoption). Since April 2018, all Australian jurisdictions legally allow same-sex couples to adopt children. All women (regardless if they are single, married or in a relationship with another person) are permitted access to IVF treatment in New South Wales under the "Assisted Reproductive Technology Act 2007". Medicare funding, however, requires the couple to be medically infertile, which makes it only available to heterosexual couples because of an assumption that the man is medically infertile. A lesbian couple would likely not have a medical condition that makes the couple infertile. The "Artificial