Re: Adoption and name change
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Quoting ABlackwell
My situation is similar to the others here. My daughter is 5 and she already has my maiden name but we would like to hyphenate it and add my husbands last name too. He is not her biological father but he is who she calls dad and I would like to have the same last name as her. Her father has not been in the picture since she's been born. I have sole custody with no visitation for her biological father. What do we do to get her last name changed? Eventually my husband will adopt her but in the mean time we want to do this. Any information would be helpful thanks. We live in Arizona and he lives in Iowa somewhere.
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Re: Adoption and name change
You will probably have to petition the court with jurisdiction over the custody case to permit the name change, and prove that the name change is in the child's best interest (unless the biological father consents).