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BRANCH v. QUATTROCCHI

No. 2000-518-Appeal.

793 A.2d 203 (2002)

Eloise BRANCH v. William QUATTROCCHI, Jr.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

March 28, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marie T. Roebuck, Providence, for Plaintiff.

Barbara E. Grady, for Defendant.

Present WILLIAMS, C.J., LEDERBERG, BOURCIER, FLANDERS, and GOLDBERG, JJ.

OPINION

PER CURIAM.

What's in a child's surname that would entitle a parent to change it? Only the child's best interests, we have held, can warrant such a renaming. Here, the defendant, William Quattrocchi, Jr. (father), appeals from a Family Court order granting the motion of the plaintiff, Eloise Branch (mother), to change the surname of their minor child from that of the mother's surname (Branch) when the child was born on June 27, 1994, to that of the...

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