Legal Opinion · Dissent
In Re Reben
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided July 18, 1975Published
1DissentDufresne, Chief Justice
On July 18, 1973 by petition addressed to the Judge of Probate in and for the County of Cumberland, Susan E. Reben (petitioner) asked that her married name of Susan E. Reben be changed to Susan E. Hirsch, her maiden name. She stated that she desired to use her maiden name as her *696legal name “for professional as well as personal reasons.”
Her husband, who is a member of the bar, represented her in the Probate Court and prosecuted this appeal before the Law Court. At no time did he seek to be made an official party to the Probate Court proceedings through intervention or otherwise, although his…
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