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IN RE WORMS

Docket No. 29811.

252 Cal.App.2d 130 (1967)

60 Cal. Rptr. 88

In re LAURIE LYNN WORMS, a Minor, etc., et al., for Change of Name. LAURIE LYNN WORMS, a Minor, etc., et al., Petitioners and Respondents, v. BERNARD ALBERT WORMS, Objector and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Five.

June 28, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel W. Blum for Objector and Appellant.

Shacknove & Goldman, Ben F. Goldman, Jr., and Philip J. Shacknove for Petitioner and Respondents.

KAUS, P.J.

This appeal involves a question of first impression in this state: what are the legitimate criteria for the exercise of the trial court's discretion, when a mother, divorced from the father of her children and since remarried, petitions to have the surname of the children changed to that of her second husband and the natural father objects?

Laurie Lynn Worms, born December 21, 1953, and Curtis Jeffrey Worms, born December 26, 1952, on petition filed...

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