Legal Opinion
In re Altheim
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 24, 2004PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Mercure, J.P.
Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Dawson, J.), entered April 3, 2003 in Essex County, which dismissed petitioner’s application pursuant to Civil Rights Law article 6 to change the name of her child.
In November 2002, petitioner, acting pro se, applied for an order permitting her son to assume her surname. Petitioner alleged, among other things, that the child’s father, whose surname the child currently bears, had no contact with the child in the two years prior to the filing of the petition and had ceased paying child support. Petitioner further asserted that assumption…
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