IN RE CANDELARIA

No. A09A1497.

684 S.E.2d 421 (2009)

300 Ga. App. 303

In re McCain Antonio CANDELARIA.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

October 2, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Moore, Ingram, Johnson & Steele, Marc E. Sirotkin, Marietta, for appellant.

Marcos Candelaria, pro se.


DOYLE, Judge.

Petitioner Wendy Cyr appeals from the denial of her request to change the name of her son, McCain Antonio Candelaria to McCain Antonio Cyr. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

In the petition for name change, Cyr explained that she was a single mother raising her son "with little to no help from his biological father" and the fact that her son had a different surname from her own was "inconvenient, confusing, and embarrassing at school and...

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