How to change my son's name to my married name
It's a long embarrassing story, but my son's father cheated on his girlfriend when he got me pregnant and a couple months later when I found out I was pregnant... he was married. As to not cause problems I agreed to raise him on my own because I wanted to keep him and he didn't. I started dating my husband when I was four months pregnant with him, and he was there when he was born and everything. All though my 5 year old son is not old enough to know why his last name is my maiden name and different from his brothers and sister, he asks me all the time if he can have the same last name as ours. I am not trying to betray anyone, not trying to hide anything from anyone. My husband IS his father now, and I know it sounds dumb but I am too embarrassed to take this to court to have him adopted and don't see any reason why changing his last name to ours wouldt be suffice. If someone could give me some advice on how to change his last name and what the steps are I will have to go through, I would much appreciate it.