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IN THE MATTER OF ALTHEIM

12 A.D.3d 993 (2004)

784 N.Y.S.2d 910

In the Matter of COLEMAN NATHANIEL BENNETT ALTHEIM, an Infant, to Assume Another Name. COLEMAN NATHANIEL BENNETT ALTHEIM, an Infant, by ANGELA J. BENNETT, His Parent, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

November 24, 2004.

Mercure, J.P.

In November 2002, petitioner, acting pro se, applied for an order permitting her son to assume her surname. Petitioner alleged, among other things, that the child's father, whose surname the child currently bears, had no contact with the child in the two years prior to the filing of the petition and had ceased paying child support. Petitioner further asserted that assumption of her surname would minimize embarrassment, harassment and confusion that the...

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