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    Default Step-Daughter Wants My Last Name

    My question involves name change laws in the State of: GEORGIA
    My wife has two children with two different fathers. One father is wonderful and very active with his daughter, pays child support timely, etc. The other, not so much...tells "Suzzie" (my step-daughter) he's coming to see her (1.5hr away) and never shows, we constantly have to bug him about paying child support, etc. Suzzie told me today that she would like to have my last name. Some tell me I would need to adopt and that would negate her real fathers obligation to pay child support and some say a simply request of the courts for name chage would be sufficient and her real father would still be required to pay child support. I would think we could just petition the court for "Suzzie's" name to be changed without formal adoption and her real father would still be required to pay child support. We don't really have the money to pay thousands in attorney fees either. Any suggestions?

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    Default Re: Step-Daughter Wants My Last Name

    well, you can petition the court but what do you think dad will say when they ask him if it is ok to change her name?

    Unless the name change is for the betterment of the child, it generally will not happen.

    there are times when taking her MOTHERS name is appropriate but since there is another daughter with presumably yet a different name, I don't see where this is for the betterment of the child. It simply appears to be an attempt to remove the father from this childs life, especially since you are so concerned about the child support.

    If you want this girl to be your daughter, look into adopting the child. Then, she will have your name. You would just have to live without the CS from the father after that, or is that something you aren't willing to do?

    Any suggestions?
    ya, quit trying to take dads place in this girls life yet still expect him to pay for the child.

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