MORRIS BY COPE v. MORRIS

No. WD 51220.

926 S.W.2d 87 (1996)

Wesley J. MORRIS, by his next friend Cassandra COPE, and Cassandra Cope, Appellants, v. Troi Gilpin MORRIS, Respondent.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District.

Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer Denied July 2, 1996.

Application to Transfer Denied August 20, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Graham, Columbia, for appellants.

Marilyn Gaeth, Columbia, for respondent.

Before SPINDEN, P.J., and SMART and LAURA DENVIR STITH, JJ.


Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer to Supreme Court Denied July 2, 1996.

SPINDEN, Presiding Judge.

Cassandra Cope, the unmarried mother of Wesley J. Morris, complains to us that the circuit court refused to change her son's surname. She was living with the boy's father, Troi Gilpin Morris, when the boy was born on September 29, 1993, and she gave him his father's surname. After they quit living together, Cope decided to change her son's surname to either...

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