Petition of Schidlmeier by Koslof

ROBERTS, Judge:

This appeal challenges the trial court’s order changing a minor child’s name from Jessica Claire Schidlmeier, as designated on her duly registered birth certificate, to Jessica Claire Koslof. The court granted the change on the petition of appellee Paul Koslof, Jessica’s father, over the opposition of appellant Dona Schidlmeier, Jessica’s mother. We reverse the order changing Jessica’s surname.

Paul Koslof and Dona Schidlmeier were married on December 19, 1981. At the time of the marriage, Dona also had a seven-year-old daughter, Jeanette Schidlmeier, who is not Paul’s child. On…