Has anyone had a court order successfully granted to change their child’s name to theirs from their father’s?
He’s repeatedly abandoned my little boy, who is 3.5y and my last name is the only he knows. Introduces himself as it, recognises it written, can do some of the letters, says we’re the [redacted] family, knows mum is grandma [redacted]
Deed polled it successfully back in April as AC was uncontactable.
We are going to court about it (in Scotland). I’m terrified about how destabilising it will be if I had to upset his sense of identity by telling him he hasn’t got the last name of everyone he sees and knows.
Has anyone either succeeded or lost a court order to change their child’s last name? What were the factors the court used to decide?
[Post edited by MNHQ]