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MATTER OF EBERHARDT

2010-06016.

83 A.D.3d 116 (2011)

920 N.Y.S.2d 216

In the Matter of MARIAH RUBY EBERHARDT. MICHELLE I. ESQUENAZI, Appellant; JOHN EBERHARDT, Respondent.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department.

Decided March 29, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth J. Weinstein , Garden City ( Michael J. Langer of counsel), for appellant.

Allen E. Huggins , Kings Park, for respondent.

Leonard B. Symons , Williston Park, attorney for the child.

PRUDENTI, P.J., DILLON and BALKIN, JJ., concur.

OPINION OF THE COURT

CHAMBERS, J.

Introduction

On this appeal we take the opportunity to clarify the law on a proposed infant name change, particularly as it pertains to a hyphenation of a child's surname to include the last names of both parents.

Michelle I. Esquenazi (hereinafter the mother) and John Eberhardt (hereinafter the father) are the parents of now nine-year-old Mariah (hereinafter the child). When the child was

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