Appellant challenges the portion of an interlocutory decree that changes her child's surname from appellant's birth name (formerly called "maiden name") to the surname of the father and enjoins each parent from any further change without court permission.
We confront a conflict between (1) common law and custom, which have given the father a "primary right" to have his child bear his surname, and (2) the...
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