Changing child’s surname

[adiosamigoo]

Was with someone for 2 years, he was abusive. I left the relationship and found out I was pregnant 3 weeks later. Ex didn’t want to know, saw DS 6 times in the first year. Child maintenance can’t find him. No contact for a couple years.

DS has his surname (i was bullied into it) but I want to change it, for obvious reasons. DS is known as my surname at school and everywhere. Is it going to be possible to change it without ex’s consent? He won’t consent for control reasons, and I have no way of contacting him anyway. If not, will i be able to tell school and doctors to use his preferred name?

@adiosamigoo It sounds like you have very good reasons to want your DS' name to change but as other posters have alluded to, it is not a simple procedure.

You really will need legal representation to do this. Everything above and my own post is conjecture; you need proper advice from a solicitor.