My question involves name change laws in the State of: Missouri and kansas. Can a ex legally change the name of a child without notifying the father? She left me sitting a friends house with a broke leg and never came back. She told me she had to choose between them or me. She picked them. I never heard from her again. We were never married but the child had/has my last name. The child now uses her mother's married name. I could never find her. The child told me that she has always used that name. That is the name her mother told her it was. How can I find out if she changed her name. I have to say I am black the mother is not. Her parents never wanted us to be together.

