Hayhurst v. Romano

COPE, Judge.

The appellant former wife appeals a post-dissolution order denying her petition to change the names of the parties’ minor children. We affirm.

During the parties’ marriage, the appellant wife and appellee husband retained their respective surnames, Hayhurst (wife) and Romano (husband). The parties’ two children were given the husband’s surname, Romano, by which they were known throughout the marriage.

Several months after the parties’ 1996 dissolution of marriage, the former wife filed a petition seeking to change the names of the minor children, ages four and seven, to a hyphenated…