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    what is a viable reasons for minor legal name change?

    Really? I did actually say he abandoned them and I would hope as a parent that he does love them. And as a mother, I have been loving them and spending time with them from the moment they were born. It's really sad to me that a father can get away with being "absent at the moment" (oh yeah...
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    what is a viable reasons for minor legal name change?

    We have moved on with our lives and I am engaged. He has been helping to raise them since the kids were about 3. The kids do not really remember their father and have since started calling their stepfather "dad." I have never told them to nor encouraged them to call him "dad," they started...
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    what is a viable reasons for minor legal name change?

    Thank you for the posts. I am aware of the need to notify by publication however, the forms also ask for other ways that you have tried to contact the other parent. Long and short of it is that when we broke up he was seeing the children whenever it was convienent for him. He was not, nor has...
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    what is a viable reasons for minor legal name change?

    I am in the processes of trying to change my twins' last name to my own. Currently it is hyphenated with mine and their biological fathers. Father has been MIA for 2 years and have not been able to track him. Trying to make it less confusing for the kids in school but I don't want a judge to...
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