Legal Opinion
In Re Ritchie
California Court of Appeal
Decided September 10, 1984No. A016713PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
This is an appeal from the trial court's order denying petitioner's application for a name change.
Petitioner Thomas Boyd Ritchie III (appellant) filed an application to change his name as a matter of public record (Code Civ. Proc.,1 § 1275 et seq.) to the roman numeral "III" (pronounced Three). The application stated in essence that appellant was born Thomas Boyd Ritchie III. Approximately six years prior to the filing of the application appellant began to use III as his name primarily for the sake of convenience. Thereafter, he kept using the new name because it gave him a greater…
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