In re Jama

This is an application for judicial approbation for a change of name pursuant to section 60 et seq. of the Civil Eights Law. The petitioner, Eobert Paul Jama, seeks to call himself Eobert von Jama and alleges that somewhere, sometime, in the past his deceased father told him that the family name was originally von Jama but that the von part had been dropped and the name Jama alone was used.

The petitioner, an American-born citizen employed by the City of New York, is 23 years of age and asserts in his petition that he wants a German genealogy and to be accepted as such “ rather than as a…