The Name Change of: James Patric Wages, Jr. v. State

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• explaining that a trial court may not summarily deny a facially sufficient petition for a change of name even where the petitioner had a criminal history and poor credit
• “As the petition was facially sufficient, the trial court should not have summarily denied it by concluding that [petitioner’s] purpose was fraudulent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).