Schroeder v. Broadfoot

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• finding that presumption in favor of a name chosen by the custodial parent “would have the practical effect of incorporating a maternal preference because, maternity being established by nature, custody of an infant almost always is with his mother”
• \The custom of giving children born out of wedlock their mother’s surnames likewise derived from primogeniture and women's secondary status in the legal and social systems.\
• unmarried parents, father not identified on birth certificate; in amended paternity petition father sought to have infant child given his surname

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).