IN RE RICHARDSON NAME CHANGE


23 Pa. D. & C. 3d 199 (1982)

In Re: the Petition of Percy Richardson to Change Name

Common Pleas Court of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.

September 24, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sanford Krevsky, for petitioner.


DOWLING, J., September 24, 1982.

Like the gargoyles of medieval architecture, with their distortion of human and animal figures, Percy wishes to fasten to his male body the female appellation of "Diane Diane."

In this Commonwealth, an individual cannot change his name without permission of the court acting upon a petition complying with certain statutory requirements.1 Petitioner has fulfilled these requirements. He has...

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