In Re Marriage of Schiffman

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• recognizing that a best-interests test, which did not include a presumption in favor of either party, applied to contests between divorced parents as to a change in the surname of their children
• abolishing a common law rule giving the father, as opposed to the mother, a primary right to have the child bear his surname, with the sole consideration going forward to be the child’s best interest
• omitting from list of best interest factors the parents’ financial support
• a father’s right to name his child is abolished as the primary determinant for a child’s surname
• “The sole consideration when parents contest a surname should be the child’s best interest.”
• \The sole consideration when parents contest a surname should be the child's best interest.\

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