Jones v. Roe

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• father petitioned to change surname of daughter from mother’s to his own
• “In resolving a dispute as to the surname of a child whose parents have not married, a court should not attribute greater weight to the father’s interest in having the child bear the paternal surname than to the mother’s interest in having the child bear her name.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).