IN RE DUNSTON

No. 7314SC403.

197 S.E.2d 560 (1973)

18 N.C. App. 647

In the Matter of the Change of Name of Peggie Lorain DUNSTON to Peggie Lorain Webb by her mother, Velvet Webb.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

July 11, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen., Robert Morgan by Asst. Atty Gen., James M. Blackburn, Raleigh, for the State.

William Woodward Webb, Durham, Legal Aid Society, for petitioner-appellant.


CAMPBELL, Judge.

G.S. § 101-2 provides that the Clerk of Superior Court may change the name of an applicant, upon 10 days' public notice of the filing of such application, and upon finding by the Clerk of good and sufficient reason for the change of name.

However, the name of a minor child may not be changed without the consent of both parents, if both be living, unless one of the parents has abandoned the minor child.

Abandonment is proved by...

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