surname change

samfromcas

can my daughter change her sons surname back to hers . her boyfriend dumped her ,a couple of months after he was born unfortunatly he was registered in his name she has nothing to do with him now .that was two and a half years ago when he left her does she need his permision or not as she would not know how or where to contact him many thanks sam

mirrorimage0

i believe she will need to have his parental consent as he was registered in his name and born after dec 1st 2003 if she wants to do it through deedpoll

http://www.ukdps.co.uk/CanIChangeMyChildrensNames.html#Section7

astonsmummy

Ok so, what if the father has not been in contact for nearly 5 years?
I have no idea where my sons sperm donor is.

Krystaltips

As far as I know, you can call your child whatever you want, you don't have to go through deedpoll. My brother and sister both grew up with our surname unofficially and then chose to adopt their Dad's surname when they left home... A friend of mines daughter always used her Mum's maiden name and when Mum remarried, at 17 she decided to get a deedpoll to the new family name...

I just recently got married and my new husband will be adopting my daughter in 10 months, we will be changing her name then.

skylight

Yes you can change the name. But unless you have consent from the other parent then it will not be a legal change, so cannot easily be on his passport etc.

But if you want to change his name, then just do it. You can change it at the schools/doctors etc. But without the legal change, he will always be Mr John Smith, known as Mr John Jones (for example).

shirlgirl2004

You can just change it unofficially by telling the GP, school etc that his name is Joe Bloggs or whatever and that is what they will call him. The only difficulty comes with passports but that's about it.

Emmzi

Scots and Eng;ish law differ on this as I recall. Where do you live?

In Scotland, you just do it I think, as he was born before the rule change..

http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/scotland/family_parent/family_family_scotland/change_of_name_scotland.htm

It looks like if it's England baby needs to have been born before 1st Dec 2003 to get a deed poll chage through (this site just had the info, sure there is a cheaper way to do it!!)

http://www.ukdps.co.uk/CanIChangeMyChildrensNames.html