COCHRAN, Justice.
This appeal presents the novel question whether a wife's petition to resume her maiden name, approved by her husband, may be denied, where the change of name is not sought for an illegal purpose and the couple have agreed that any children born of the marriage will bear the husband's surname.
Donna Jean Stienstra married Thomas Earl Strikwerda in 1970 and thereafter used her husband's surname. In 1974 she filed a petition in the trial court...
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