Im new to this forum. Im hoping someone can guide me in the right direction. I live in texas. My duaghter is 12, her biological father last saw her when she was about 1 year old, we were never married. I don't know where he is nor do i really want to know. It was a very bad situation that i was able to get out of. Anyway, when she was 5 i married, and she has called him dad ever since. Unfortnately i was divorced last year but for her this is her dad and she wants his last name. I didn't want to go through an adoption process partly becuase of financial reasons and i was afraid her biological dad would come around and try to stop it and prevent it from happening and in the process getting rights to see her and i didn't want that. So now she still wants to change her last name to the only dad she has ever known but i need to know first of all if this is possible and what the process is and what i have to do. Im not sure if its harder now that im not married to him or not. She just doesn't want to have his last name anymore and i would like to change it to my ex husband who has rasied her since she was 5. Please assist me in any way possible or lead me in the right direction. I would like this done as painless as possible and hopefully not having to contact the biological father and get this done as quick as possible. Thank you.

