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  1. #1
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    Default Changing My Child's Name

    My question involves name change laws in the State of: South Carolina
    Short version, I was young and dumb and decided to marry the guy I thought I was in love with. He knew my situation and told me he wanted to be the father of my child even though he knew there was a chance the child wasn't his. His name is onthe birth certificate. My son is 3, we are in the middle of a divorce, I believe he is abusing my son. I had the court order a paternity test and he is not the father. I would like his name removed. My lawyer isn't the best and I would like advice as to what I can do. I really don't want the biological father on the birth certificate, if that's what I have to do I will to protect my son. However, if the legal father will sign over his rights or I can take him off, my fiance wants to adopt my son. What can I do?
    Thank you.

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    Default Re: Changing My Child's Name

    You can't have a fiance when you're still married.

    That aside, two questions.

    1. What proof do you have of any sort of abuse?

    2. Why is it in your son's best interest to lose the only Dad he's had for 3 years?

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    Default Re: Changing My Child's Name

    Proof of possible abuse: I have over 40 pictures of bruising scratches etc. My son showed up with bruises that looked like handprints. I've asked him who hurt him he said daddy. One of the women who has babysat my son noticed the bruising and asked him who hurt him, he responded with daddy. His father has also abused me in the past. My son showed up at my house with a bleeding bottom from severe diaper rash. When I confronted my husband, he told me "I don't change his diapers". My son won't go near my husband when I drop him off with "daddy".
    Losing his father: out of three years "daddy" has only been around a little over one year. Part of this due to deployments part because he won't have anything to do with his son unless he has to.
    I realize that people are very biased toward their own points of view. There are several details I am leaving out because I am trying to be objective and concise.

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    Default Re: Changing My Child's Name

    You really need to stop hopping from one relationship to another and thinking it is the person you will spend the rest of your life with. You have a child to consider.

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