In Re: Name Change of Jenna A. J.

No. 11-1694 - In re: Name Change of Jenna A.J. FILED May 21, 2013 RORY L. PERRY II, CLERK SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF WEST VIRGINIA Workman, Justice, Dissenting: I dissent both from the Court’s judgment in this case and from most of the majority’s reasoning. The decision of the circuit court was well within its discretion and I see no principled basis on which to overturn it; this Court has, in effect, re-weighed the evidence, utilizing certain hard-and-fast rules, tests and presumptions we have previously mandated in our seminal name change cases, In re Harris, 160 W. Va. 422,

236 S.E.2d 426

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