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Reza Athari & Associates, PLLC | Armand Fried
It should have exactly zero effect on the child support. She is still your child and you are still supporting her, whatever her last name is.
Answer Applies to: Nevada
Replied: 10/28/2011
Reeves Law Firm, P.C. | Roy L. Reeves
The child's last name and child support are not inter-dependent on one another. However, the father must be notified and given opportunity to be heard and even if he does not show the court has to find that the reason you are seeking a name change is permissible and in the child's best interest.
Answer Applies to: Texas
Replied: 10/27/2011
AyerHoffman, LLP | Cara Lee Thompson
A change of name will not affect a child support order.
Answer Applies to: Massachusetts
Replied: 10/27/2011
Law Offices of Louis M. Leibowitz, LLC | Louis Leibowitz
You daughter's name has no bearing on child support. It is a parent's obligation to support his or her child, regardless of of their name.
Answer Applies to: Maryland
Replied: 10/27/2011
Ashman Law Office | Glen Edward Ashman
The name has nothing to do with child support.
Answer Applies to: Georgia
Replied: 10/27/2011
Law Office Of Jody A. Miller | Jody A. Miller
You can change her name without losing child support. If the father pays child support, you will likely need his consent to change her name.
Answer Applies to: Georgia
Replied: 10/27/2011
Warner Center Law Offices of Donald F. Conviser | Donald F. Conviser
You won't lose the right to receive child support for your daughter by changing her name. However, if you file a case to change your daughter's name, you are required to give written notice to your ex-husband, and he can contest your effort to change your daughter's name.
Answer Applies to: California
Replied: 10/27/2011
Law Office of James Bordonaro | James Albert Bordonaro
You won't lose child support but I think the other parent's consent is required to change the name.
Answer Applies to: Kansas
Replied: 10/27/2011
Beaulier Law Office | Maury Beaulier
A name change has no impact on child support. However, a name change may likely require consent of both parents or a Court order.
Answer Applies to: Minnesota
Replied: 10/26/2011
The Law Office of Kem Eyo, LLC | Kem Eyo
A father's duty to support their child has no connection to the child's last name. If you file an action to change the child's name, the outcome will have no bearing on child support. However, you are required to notify the biological father of your filing, and he has the right to object to the change.
Answer Applies to: Georgia
Replied: 10/26/2011
Glenn E. Tanner | Glenn E. Tanner
In Washington, child support obligations are not tied to parenting decisions. A court will probably not allow you to change the name however without notice to the Father, if you seek a court order.
Answer Applies to: Washington
Replied: 10/26/2011
Joanna Mitchell & Associates, P.A. | Joanna Mitchell
You cannot change her last name without the biological father's consent.
Answer Applies to: Florida
Replied: 10/26/2011
John E. Kirchner, Attorney at Law | John Kirchner
In Colorado you cannot change her last name without the father's consent. You will need court approval from the court that has established child support. If the court approves a name change, that will not by itself result in termination of child support if there no termination of parental rights.
Answer Applies to: Colorado
Replied: 10/26/2011
The English Law Firm | Robert English
The minor's name has no impact on support. However, you will need to make a noticed motion to the court for approval of any name change. The other parent will have to have notice and opportunity to be heard.
Answer Applies to: California
Replied: 10/26/2011
Law Offices of Steven A. Hemmat | Steven A. Hemmat
Changing your daughter's name is completely independent from the father's obligation to pay child support. The father's obligation to pay child support is based upon a court order to do so, and not dependent upon a change of last name. Incidentally, it will be difficult to obtain a court order to change your daughter's last name without consent of the father.
Answer Applies to: Washington
Replied: 10/26/2011
Law Office of L. Paul Zahn | Paul Zahn
Your daughter's last name is not relevant to child support. Whether you can get the order you are seeking for a name change, however, may or may not happen, as her biological father has the right to object.
Answer Applies to: California
Replied: 10/26/2011
The Davies Law Firm, P.A. | Robert F. Davies, Esq.
Child support is not tied to your girl's last name. You could use an attorney's help to change her name.
Answer Applies to: New Jersey
Replied: 10/26/2011
Law Office of James Lentz | James Lentz
You would have to give your daughter's father notice, and if he objected, the court would likely not allow the change. The easy way would be to have the husband adopt the child. But then child support would stop and if you divorced your current husband he would be on the hook for child support, so he might not want to do the adoption. You don't say how old the child is, but at 18 she can do whatever she likes.
Answer Applies to: Ohio
Replied: 10/26/2011
Law Office of Michael W. Bugni | Jay W. Neff
Yes, you can. However, you will probably need to give the other parent notice of the fact that you are going to change your daughter's name. If the other parent objects, you may have trouble convincing the court to make the change.
Answer Applies to: Washington
Replied: 10/26/2011
Swann-Zwiebel Law Firm, LLC | Elizabeth Swann
The only way to change your daughter's last name to your current husband's name is by adoption. If the child is adopted by your current husband then child support will cease to be required of her natural father. Since the process of adoption terminates her natural father's rights, child support will stop.
Answer Applies to: Alabama
Replied: 10/26/2011
Donaldson Stewart, PC | Monica H. Donaldson Stewart
These are two separate issues - changing her last name does not affect child support, but you must either obtain the biological father's consent to the name change, or you must proceed with having him served with notice of the name change hearing so he has an opportunity to appear and object to the change.
Answer Applies to: Arizona
Replied: 10/26/2011
