Thanks for all your help. I'm sorry if I didn't make this clear but my stepdaughter and the father have never shared a last name. She was able to give the child her name when the baby is born so I thought it would be easy to change her name when she changed hers? The State was Texas and it sounds like there was definitely a court order. But she hasn't pursued it, she's 7 now and he was gone before she was 1. Anyway thanks for your help again and I guess we'll precede with how you outlined. GO BLUE!