Italy's Constitutional Court ruled
Wednesday that all norms that automatically attribute a father's
surname to his children are illegitimate.
The court said that both parents surnames should be given to
their children.
The top court said the norm attributing the father's name to his
children "is discriminatory and injurious of the child's
identity".
Children should be given both parents' surnames in the order the
parents agree on, the court said.
Or the parents may agree that their children should bear the
surname of just one of them, the supreme court added.
Failing an agreement on the order of name attribution, the court
said, a judge should decide.
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