Morris ex rel. Cope v. Morris

SPINDEN, Presiding Judge.

Cassandra Cope, the unmarried mother of Wesley J. Morris, complains to us that the circuit court refused to change her son’s surname. She was living with the boy’s father, Troi Gilpin Morris, when the boy was born on September 29, 1993, and she gave him his father’s surname. After they quit living together, Cope decided to change her son’s surname to either Cope-Morris or Morris-Cope. Troi Morris did not consent to the change.

The circuit court’s refusal to change the boy’s name is the only issue Cope appeals from the circuit’s order of May 15, 1995, adopting the…