Skillin v. Merrill

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “[s]imply indicating [the petitioner] has prior convictions and is a judgment debtor does not establish that he is seeking the name change for an ‘ulterior or illegal purpose’”
• “Where a trial court denies a facially sufficient petition [for name change], the factual basis for doing so must be set forth in its order.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).