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    lambchop324 Posts: 2, Reputation: 1
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    Apr 14, 2012, 12:43 PM
    Step child adoption
    Will my new husband have to adopt my daughter to give her his last name?
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    ballengerb1 Posts: 27,378, Reputation: 2280
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    Apr 14, 2012, 02:07 PM
    We need to know a bit more please. Can you tell us the bio-dad and where he is in this?
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    Apr 15, 2012, 10:20 AM
    You also need to go to Court to change the last name. You need the permission of the birth father to do that.

    Adoption - same thing.
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    Apr 15, 2012, 10:50 AM
    I wonder why he would be interested in giving them his last name but not adopting? But the process is similar and he might as well go for adoption.

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