In re Change of Name of E.M.L. to E.M.S.

OPINION BY

SHOGAN, J.:

L.D. and J.L. (“Appellants”), birth parents of E.M.L., appeal from the order entered on May 18, 2010, in the Court of Common Pleas of Centre County, granting the petition of E.M.L. to change his surname. Upon review, we affirm.

Fifteen-year-old E.M.L. had been living with the same foster family since he was removed from the care of his birth parents at the age of one and a half. E.M.L. approached his attorney, Assistant Public Defender John P. Pendergast, with a request to change his surname from that of his birth father, J.L., to that of his foster family’s. On March 28,…