How would I explain why I want to change my last name?
So, currently my last name is 'Foresman'. When I turn 18, I want to change it to 'Sykero'. There is ultimately no specific reason for this name change except for the fact that I want to be rid of my current last name. I do not have the same last name as my mother. I have my father's last name because all of my siblings took their fathers' last names. My mother is currently single, but she is still using the last name of the last man she married. Since he is not my father, I do not want his last name. Also, I have never met him, but from what I have heard, he has been in and out of jail for the last twenty years or so and I do not want to be associated with that by having his last name.
I do not want 'Foresman' because 1.) I do not feel like a Foresman-- I have not seen my father in almost fifteen months, and I haven't heard from him either. I was never very close to him to begin with. Another reason I would like to change it is because, for whatever reason, people seem to mishear my last name.. A lot. Last school year, there was a kind of phase where one teacher has an accent, and when he had said my last name, it sounded as if he had said 'Foreskin'. Of course, this became quite the joke on me. That was not the only time it had happened and it will not be the last. 'Foresman' is not a name I want to be attached to. So, if I had to go in front of a court to give a valid reason for my name change, what would I say? How would I phrase it for the courts to accept it as 'valid'?
