Posted on 07/31/2017 12:22:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A mother who no longer liked her child's middle name has won the right to have it removed in a legal challenge costing thousands of pounds in legal aid.
In the new case the mother, who cannot be named, objected to the child's middle name because it was the same as an infamous public figure which she said gave it negative connotations and would therefore harm the child.
But the father wants to keep the name arguing it is an essential part of the child's identity.
So the mother took the case to the family court where she was granted legal aid.
District judge Cooper ruled in her favour last year but the father was granted the right to appeal.
In a separate hearing in May this year the father assured the judge he would only use the child's first name and would not refer to the famous name in any correspondence.
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He said: "At birth the child was given two forenames by the parents and registered with both. The child is most commonly known by the first name but the father uses both and says he favours the middle name.
"The middle name is a normal well established name. It is not eccentric or in itself offensive. However, the mother’s case was that, as a result of its association with a notorious public figure, it is infected with bad connotations."
The case is bound to draw unfavourable comparison to Charlie Gard, whose parents were denied legal aid to try to save their son's life.
Last week politicians criticised the legal aid system after it was claimed that the Gards did not receive legal aid.
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(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Of......Ulm
Of.......Ulm
I wasn’t gonna click the site because the name wasn’t in the excerpt...
If it wasn’t even in the story, why the heck was it even posted????
TTIUWTMN
(This thread is useless without the middle name)
That’s my guess too
Hussain?
That is, thousands of pounds for a frivolous change of middle name versus not penny for getting legal help to get medical help for a child.
Or maybe Enoch (Powell) if the parents are liberals.
Most other names have good and bad associations, and the name isn't attached to just one person.
Could be Capone or Tupac, but that's not likely.
Also, there are a lot of reality stars in Britain who could qualify as "notorious public figures."
Is the kids middle name “Profumo”?
Even without Bin Laden, though, was it ever really a "perfectly ordinary name" in Britain?
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso
‘Lee’?
Middle Name Wayne?
My teen aged daughter started dissing the name Donald. I had to remind her that her biological grandfather was named Donald.
Donald?
It would have to be a name that only became, “tainted” after they gave it to the child.
Bullish for the win!
Probably two boys with a relative named Donald......
silly brits.
KYPD
True enough...but remember, Britain today is something like 10% moslem and 50% atheist.
Bieber?
> Of.......Ulm <
Ha! Yes, you’re right. I remember that now.
If I were the mother of a child whose middle name was Isis, I would want to change it. Maybe the dad is a Muslim and thinks the name is fine.
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