marital status

Mrs. means you are referreing yourself with your Husband's name, so if you retain or keep your hsuabdns name with your name then certainly it will be MRS for ever like as in case of a widow . But if you retain your original name after divorce then certainly you are Ms. indicating you are no more a married woman.

Traditionally, a married woman had to use the title Mrs., only in conjunction with her husband’s name, not her own—" Mrs. Shyam Sundaram ” rather than “Mrs. Nivedita Sundaram.” A divorced woman used Mrs. followed by her maiden name and former husband’s last name: “Mrs. Shetty Sundaram.”

But societal changes gradually made this practice seem a relic from another time. Today it is acceptable for both married and divorced women to be referred to by their first names after the title Mrs., as in “Mrs. Nivedita Sundaram.”

A married woman can choose to be addressed as either “Mrs. Nivedita Sundaram” or “Mrs. Shyam Sundaram.”

In the case of a divorced woman, “Mrs. Shyam Sundaram” is no longer an option. If she retains her former husband’s last name (and many women do so that their surname will be the same as their children’s) then Mrs. [or Ms.] Nivedita Sundaram is correct. If she reverts to her maiden name, Ms. is the correct title, as in “Ms. Nivedita Shetty.”

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Anaita Vas