How do I change my child's last name in the state of Illinois?
446011
Just start at page one, and fill out what they give you...  when you take it in, they will go though it and unwittingly tell you what you have made mistakes on, its a great way for free legal assistance.  Also see if your state has a legal advocate, or friend of the court's office to help.
191448
In most cases both parents have to agree to the name change.  There are exceptions (see source).
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http://www.divorcenet.com/states/illinois/ilfaq_09\n\n\nhttp://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=2497&ChapAct=750%26nbsp%3BILCS%26nbsp%3B36%2F&ChapterID=59&ChapterName=FAMILIES&ActName=Uniform+Child%2DCustody+Jurisdiction+and+Enforcement+Act%2E
109560
Contact your local courthouse and ask them what forms are required for you to change your name.  You will get scheduled for a hearing before a judge and you wille explain your request.
485343
You need to go to your nearest passport agency. In the Us, you can go to the post office, overseas, you need to go to the Embassy. You have to bring your old passport, and a certified copy of the legality of your name change, such as a marriage certificate, an adoption certificate, a divorce decree with permanent orders, or a court ruling on your name change.
343004
Are you in the US? If so, you can name him anything you want. Not in the US? I bet there is a way around it. Talk to a lawyer. Good luck.
259078
Some states have laws governing name changes. Usually in a divorce there is a choice, unless the state law forbids changing your name. You can always change your name to anything you want it to be, if you want to pay for it. Look at rock star Alice Cooper. So you can keep your ex's last name or change it depending on the law. \n\nAs for your children's names ... there are also laws controling changing their names like changing your name. After my son and his wife divorced, she took back her maiden name, and wanted to change their children's names. My son was angry (and hurt) and told her she should ask the girls if they wanted to change their names. The oldest girl wanted to keep her Dad's last name, and the younger girl (more attached to her Mom) said she wouldn't mind having her mom's name. In the end, his ex-wife let both girls keep their Dad's last name. She later had a child by a guy old enough to be her father (and wasn't married to him), and this child has his father's last name ... so she now has three different last names in her household. This seems to be okay, and it lets the kids have their own identity.
209705
First off, how old is your son? If you have raised him all his life and now you are taking your name off...that's sad.  Otherwise, I think you have to go through courts. Call the Social Security Admin, its probably a similar process as adopting someone, its the same, except in reverse. Hope that helps.
139665
Go to the Court House and file a petition for name change.  They will do a criminal background check and other background checks.  Then a court justices will evaluate a name change.
654992
You have the right to use any name you wish as long as you are not using an alias to commit fraud or hide out from the law.  So, you do not need court approval in order to start using any name you want for your child.\n\nYou may have some trouble down the road when you need to show a birth certificate for enrollment in school or getting a passport.  Schools are usually good about a child having a legal name and another every-day name.  Passport office and DMVs are a bit more narrow minded.\n\nI would suggest that rather than going to the hassle and expense of filing to have the child's legal name changed at this time, that you and your intended put the issue on the back burner for the next four or ten years.  If you and he are still together when it becomes necessary to have a formal, legal, name change, do it then.\n\nUp to then, just use your husband's last name and your name:\nJohn Smith Jones, or John Smith-Jones, or John Jones-Smith.
698340
You probably have to go to the court house. You birth certificate has your mothers last name. So thats the name you need to give them. They will prob be able to find it that way. Not with the last name you have now. I'd go to the court house and ask them what you need. I would take in your drivers liscense for ID and your soc security card. They will prob ask for them. Good luck!
638095
Go ahead and just start using a middle name.  Try it on for a while and make sure you like it.\n\nThen call your local courthouse and ask how to legally change your name.  It's probably just a matter of filing some papers at the courthouse.
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Go to your nearest social security office .Make sure you\nbring all your legal papers ,showing you changed your \nname legally
949262
You have to go to court, get a change of name. It is pretty easy and doesn't cost much.
124444
Contact your superior/circuit court in your county.  They are the general jurisdiction court in most county and will be able to direct you on the forms to complete to have your name changed.
879755
Get ahold of a lawyer who does adoptions. He will write up a petition for adoption and run it in the local newspaper in the town where you last knew that your ex lived (if you don't know where he is at now...then just have them run it in your local newspaper). It has to run for 4 weeks (regardless as to whether it is a daily or weekly paper) and if he doesn't respond to it to contest it, then the lawyer will get a date set on the courts docket and you will go to court and the judge will grant the adoption by default. New birth certificates will be made up and they will replace the original ones, although they will staple it over the original at the state capital Vital Statistics. You will receive the new Birth certificates with you and new hubby's names as birth parents and the kids will have his last name as if they were born that way.\nCongratulations and Good Luck!!!!
585347
Contact your county courthouse...prices vairy from state to state.  As far as having to adopt him for him to get your last name...no, he's already your baby, you don't need to adopt him...what name did your girlfriend have put on the birth certificate? If she put your last name on the birth certificate, then you don't need to change a thing...if not, then you need to go through the courts to get his last name changed to your last name provided both you and your girlfriend agree to it.  Good Luck.