Adoption introductions

[Suzee80]

Hi, I am in the process of adopting a 6 year old, I just wondered if anyone share experiences of when and how the child's surname was changed? I mean how was handled with the child rather than legalities. TIA

My friends did it on the day they went to court to finalise, the kids were asked (a bit older) and wanted to take the new surname and one elected to change their first name slightly (to the full version of the name, she was called a shortening with an odd spelling)

We just stuck my name on the end so he was known as that from day 1. He didnt object.
When we came to the court application he was nearly 9 so I asked him what he wanted, we kept the whole of his birth name and just tacked mine on the end
Congratulations on your new child, good luck for intros

We talked openly about being a new family and what that meant for them, we registered them with GP, dentist etc with our name and slowly they adopted our family name. Actually my DD was 6 and was so pleased and proud of her new name she was really happy to change.

Thanks for your replies, I like what you've said you be done and has given me some good ways of how to handle it.

Our eldest was nearly 8.
She was happy to be 'known as' our surname from placement.
Obviously she had to be officially registered as her legal name (which turned out not to be the surname she was then known as) but for her it was just our surname.