In re E.F.G.
New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division
942 A.2d 166 (2008)
- Written by Haley Gintis, JD
Facts
EFG (plaintiff) filed a petition to assume another name. In the petition, EFG stated that she was assuming a new name because she was a domestic-violence victim and her abuser had continued to contact her in violation of multiple restraining orders. As required under N.J.S.A. § 2A:52-1 (2013), EFG included an affidavit in which she swore that she was not pursuing a name change for any illegal purposes. EFG’s complaint also included details of the abuse she had suffered, medical charts and photographs documenting her various injuries, and the multiple restraining orders that she had obtained against her abuser. EFG also filed a motion to waive the procedural requirement governed by Rule 4:72-3 of the New Jersey Court Rules, which mandated that notice of the name change be published for the public’s awareness. In the motion, EFG also requested the court to seal the record of her name change. The trial court rejected the motion and denied EFG’s name change on the ground that she had not complied with the procedural requirement. The matter was appealed.
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning (Lyons, J.)
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