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CHILD’S NAME CHANGE TO THE HYPHENATED SURNAMES OF BOTH PARENTS, WHO ARE NOT MARRIED, AFFIRMED (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department, over a two-justice dissent, determined the petition to change the child’s last name was properly granted to the extent that the hyphenated surnames of both parents, who are not married, were assigned to the child:

The parties have joint legal custody and the mother has always had primary physical custody of the child. Because he was overseas on active military duty, the father was not present at the time of the child’s birth. Prior to the child’s birth, however, the father had strongly expressed to the mother that the child should have his surname. Nevertheless, the mother gave the child her surname, Bafumo. The father commenced this proceeding in November 2016 under Civil Rights Law article 6 to change the surname of the child from Bafumo to Weinhofer, his surname. …

A petition to change the surname of a child shall be granted as long as the opposing party does not have a reasonable objection to the proposed name change and “the interests of the [child] will be substantially promoted by the change” (Civil Rights Law § 63). Although it appears that Supreme Court rendered its determination based solely on the second element — whether the child’s interests would be substantially promoted by the name change — given that the record is sufficiently developed as to the first element — whether the mother’s objections to the father’s petition were reasonable — it is unnecessary to remit the matter for a new hearing … . That said, we find that the mother’s objections were not reasonable. Matter of Bafumo, 2019 NY Slip Op 02767, Third Dept 4-10-19

 

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