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SPERO EX REL. SPERO v. HEATH

Record No. 030495.

593 S.E.2d 239 (2004)

267 Va. 477

Jessica Wynn SPERO and Ella Madison Spero, an Infant Who Sues by Jessica Wynn SPERO, Her Mother and Next Friend, v. David Todd HEATH.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

March 5, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William G. Shields, Richmond (James A. Eichner; Shields & Associates, on brief), for appellant.

John H. Click, Jr. (Blackburn, Conte, Schilling & Click, on brief), Richmond, for appellee.

Present: All the Justices

LEMONS, Justice.

In this appeal, we consider whether a trial court erred " in determining that a name change was in the best interest of a child, when the child bore the mother's surname and the natural father petitioned the court to change the child's surname to the father's.

Ella Madison Spero ("Ella"), born October 30, 2001, is the daughter of David Todd Heath ("Heath") and Jessica Wynn Spero ("Spero"). Heath...

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