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    Default I Never Changed My Sons Last Name to His Father's

    My question involves name change laws in the State of: Texas. My sons father and I never changed my sons last name after we established custody and child support 15 years ago . now we are having to do it or our son can't get his drivers license. We were told that we are bolth in contempt of court. We get along great and our son is OK with the name change, but are we gonna be in trouble for this ,like jail or fines? We were young then and didn't know how all this worked back then, we didn't know how to go about getting it done. We bolth take responsibility for this but we are worried that we are going to get into legal trouble. Can you explain what we should expect?

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    Default Re: I Never Changed My Sons Last Name to His Father's

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    My question involves name change laws in the State of: Texas. My sons father and I never changed my sons last name after we established custody and child support 15 years ago . now we are having to do it or our son can't get his drivers license. We were told that we are bolth in contempt of court. We get along great and our son is OK with the name change, but are we gonna be in trouble for this ,like jail or fines? We were young then and didn't know how all this worked back then, we didn't know how to go about getting it done. We bolth take responsibility for this but we are worried that we are going to get into legal trouble. Can you explain what we should expect?
    Were you court ordered to change your son's last name? Who is telling you that you're in contempt?

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    Yes we were ordered to do that when we set up visitation and child support with the mediator at the child support office. My sons dad had spoke with a uncle that is a district attorney here in potter county to see what we should do but he just said we are bolth in contempt of court for not doing it 15 years ago. That's all he told us.

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    Yes we were ordered to do that when we set up visitation and child support with the mediator at the child support office. My sons dad had spoke with a uncle that is a district attorney here in potter county to see what we should do but he just said we are bolth in contempt of court for not doing it 15 years ago. That's all he told us.
    Just go ahead and get his name changed. I highly doubt anything negative is going to happen to you.

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    OK thanks so so much for your advise I really appreciate it. You really put my mind at ease.

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    OK thanks so so much for your advise I really appreciate it. You really put my mind at ease.
    Good luck to you all

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