Changing daughters surname

Annoyedmummy are you married ? where you married when the child was born?

Hi DivorceLawyer, do you have a reference to the specific case law; do the cases specifically involve fathers without PR?

I was also going to suggest looking at the 1995 Practice Direction, Child: Change
of Surname 1 FLR 458, but cannot find the URL.

If your daughter has your name now why don't you just keep your own name when you marry. That's not unusual and then you and your daughter will always have the same name.

Sadie

No I wasn't married to my ex at any time. No she doesn't have the same name as my ex as he left me when I was 6 weeks pregnant.
We haven't seen hide nor hair of him for over 2 months. He isn't at the previous address that I have for him, so i wouldn't be able to ask his permission.
I don't want to keep my name the same when I get married. I would like to change it to my new partners, and have Olivia have the same name.
Oh, and me and my partner haven't only just got together, we have been together for nearly 2 years now.

Sorry Forseti, only just seen this.

The ref is Dawson v Wearmouth [1997] 2 FLR 629 (CA), which you can find here:

www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/e...)&method=boolean

also, if you go through MadaboutCars threads, he and I lived his change of name proceedings in there, where mum was ordered to change name of child back.

WOW some dates don't add up here...still i believe DL has answered your questions

GH

Lol Gene - you have to factor in that not everyone likes my advice... no idea why