The courts may be able to help with that if they have standard name change forms at their disposal, but court clerks cannot provide legal advice or instruction on how to prepare a name change petition. By way of example, Harnett County offers a name change package here. Many other counties likely offer similar packages; if yours does not, odds are you can adapt the forms from another county for your purpose. If you want to change the child's name on his birth certificate, you will need to follow the procedures defined by the Mississippi Department of Vital Records.

