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IN RE NAME CHANGE OF L.M.G.

No. 24093.

738 N.W.2d 71 (2007)

2007 SD 83

In the Matter of the CHANGE OF NAME of L.M.G., A Minor Child.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Reassigned March 13, 2007.

Decided August 8, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Debra M. Voigt, Voigt Law Office, PC, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Attorney for appellant, Mother.

Mary Ann Giebink, Galland Law Firm, PC, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Attorney for appellee, Father.

SABERS, Justice (on reassignment).

[¶ 1.] We determine whether a trial court abused its discretion in ordering the name change of L.M.G. from W.G.'s (Mother) married name to R.P.'s (Father) surname. L.M.G. was conceived during an affair between Mother and Father. Mother was married at the time and eventually reconciled with her husband. Mother listed her husband's surname on daughter's birth certificate. Father subsequently petitioned to change daughter's surname...

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