In re Kidder

SCOLNIK, Justice.

Judy Barber appeals the judgment of the Oxford County Probate Court dismissing her petition to change the name of her minor son, Dustin James Kidder. The Probate Court denied the petition on the basis that Judy Barber cannot unilaterally change her son’s name when she shares parental rights and responsibilities with the child’s father, James Kidder, and he opposes the petition. We affirm the judgment.

By a divorce judgment dated May 1, 1986, James Kidder and Judy Kidder were awarded shared parental rights and responsibilities of their only child, Dustin James Kidder. The…