IN RE BOARDMAN

Docket: Cum-16-421.

166 A.3d 106 (2017)

2017 ME 131

IN RE Carol A. BOARDMAN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: June 27, 2017.

Corrected: July 6, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James S. Mundy, Esq. , Whitney, Mundy & Mundy, South Berwick, for appellant Carol Ann Boardman.

Kimberly Ann Fredette, amicus curiae pro se.

Mary L. Bonauto, Esq. , and Patience Crozier, Esq. , GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, Boston, for amici curiae GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, ACLU of Maine Foundation, Equality-Maine, and Trans Youth Equality Foundation.

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and ALEXANDER, GORMAN, JABAR, HJELM, and HUMPHREY, JJ.


[¶ 1] Carol A. Boardman appeals from a decision of the Cumberland County Probate Court (Mazziotti, J.) denying her petition for a name change entered after a hearing. Boardman contends that the court erred by concluding that the potential effect of the name change — others' misunderstanding of Boardman's marital status &...

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