Did your mother keep or change her name when she got married?

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Changed it. But she has said she will revert if she and my dad were to ever divorce. Judging by all the obstacles they have been through together, including my dad's heart attack, my dad's three battles with cancer (all of which were hidden from me very convincingly, I didn't find out about the last battle until 2013, which was four years after the fact), my middle brothers recent addiction, and the millions of hurdles thrown by my youngest brothers autism, I don't see her name ever changing.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

I know multiple couples who decided to mash their two last names into one new Frankenname, which is an option I have a quite favorable opinion of, actually.

Really? That sounds absolutely dreadful to me.

There's a seen in Llewlyn Davis where the protagonist encounters a couple named Greenfung instead of Green-Fung.