Change Your Baby's Last Name in Illinois - Ensure that you meet the residency requirements to file for a legal name change of a minor. In Illinois, you must have resided in the state for at least six months, and you must have custody of the child to seek a name change.
Contact a newspaper in the county in which you reside. Request to publish a notice at least six weeks prior to filling out necessary paperwork to seek a name change. This notice will state your intention to change your child's name, and it must run for three consecutive weeks.
Change Your Baby's Last Name in Illinois
Contact the circuit court in the county in which you and your child reside. Request from the court a copy of the petition for change of name of a minor. This is the official name of the document.
Fill out the change of name form. You will need to provide the birth date and place of the child, a certified copy of the child's birth certificate, the birth name of the child, the child's residence, the names of the child's parents, the reason for the name change and what you wish the child's name to be changed to.
File the petition with the county circuit court. You will have to include the filing fee for the petition. The fee will vary depending on which county you file the form in. You will be given a hearing date.
In Illinois, a parent may seek to change the name, including the last name, of a minor child granted the court deems that it is in the child's best interest. Often, such a name change is granted after a divorce where the mother is granted full custody of the child. In such cases, the child's last name is changed along with the mother's last name from the father's last name. A special form, known as a petition for a name change of a minor, must be used to seek a change in the name of a baby. - by eHow
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