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A  applicationcasescourtdepartmentdiscriminatorylastmanmarriagerulingsurname in South Africa has ruled that a  applicationcasescourtdepartmentdiscriminatorylastmanmarriagerulingsurname can now take his wife's  applicationcasescourtdepartmentdiscriminatorylastmanmarriagerulingsurname or have a double-barrelled name after  applicationcasescourtdepartmentdiscriminatorylastmanmarriagerulingsurname. Prior to this  applicationcasescourtdepartmentdiscriminatorylastmanmarriagerulingsurname, the country's Births and Deaths Registration Act had stipulated that a husband needed to apply to the Home Affairs  applicationcasescourtdepartmentdiscriminatorylastmanmarriagerulingsurname in order to take his wife's surname or to hyphenate it. However, even if a man submitted an  applicationcasescourtdepartmentdiscriminatorylastmanmarriagerulingsurname, there was no guarantee that it would be granted. The request was denied in many  applicationcasescourtdepartmentdiscriminatorylastmanmarriagerulingsurname. The new decree stipulates that the law prohibiting a man from adopting his spouse's family name was  applicationcasescourtdepartmentdiscriminatorylastmanmarriagerulingsurname on the basis of gender. It says a man has the right to assume the  applicationcasescourtdepartmentdiscriminatorylastmanmarriagerulingsurname name of a woman he marries.