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You must be a resident of Erie County for One Year for Erie County
Probate Court to process this request.
Name Change - Adult
The process through which an Ohio resident may attain a legal change
of name is governed by
Revised Code Section
2717.01. Any person desiring such a change may file an
application with the probate court of the county in which he/she
resides. One year residency is required. Notice of the change of
name hearing must be published once, in a newspaper of general
circulation in the county, at least thirty days prior to the
hearing. If the court finds that the notice was appropriate and that
the facts set forth in the application show reasonable and proper
cause for changing the name, it may enter an order to change the
name.
Revised Code Section
3705.13 provides an additional procedure that must be followed
if the Probate Court grants a change of name for a person who was
born in Ohio. The statute requires that the office of vital
statistics receive and file a certified copy of the court order that
changed the name. Such order shall be cross-referenced with the
original birth record and the office of vital statistics shall then
issue a new certification of birth (not a new birth certificate)
which reflects the change.
Name Change – Minor
Revised Code Section
2717.01(B) governs any change of name of a minor. The statute’s
requirement that a change of name be supported by “reasonable and
proper cause” implies that the best interests of the child be
considered. An application may be made on behalf of a minor by the
minor’s parents, a legal guardian or a guardian ad litem. In changes
of names, an application on behalf of a minor must also be
accompanied by the consent of both living, legal parents of the
minor. If either or both of the parents do not consent to the change
of the minor’s name, then notice of the hearing must be sent to the
non-consenting parent(s) by certified mail, return receipt
requested. If the father of the minor is unknown, such notice shall
be sent to the person whom the mother alleges to be the father.
Absent such an allegation, or if either parents address is unknown,
then notice by publication, pursuant to
Revised Code Section
2717.01(A), is sufficient. Any notice required by that section,
except the publication notice of division (A) may be waived in
writing by the person entitled to the notice.
Revised Code Section
3705.13 provides an additional procedure that must be followed if the
Probate Court grants a change of name for a person who was born in
Ohio. The statute requires that the office of vital statistics
receive and file a certified copy of the court order that changed
the name. Such order shall be cross-referenced with the original
birth record and the office of vital statistics shall then issue a
new certification of birth (not a new birth certificate) which
reflects the change.
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