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New Mexico Name Change Law
New Mexico Statutes 40-8-1.
Change of name; petition and order.
Any resident of this state over the age of fourteen years
may, upon petition to the district court of the district in which the
petitioner resides and upon filing the notice required with proof of
publication, if no sufficient cause is shown to the contrary, have his
<name> <changed> or established by order of the court. The
parent or guardian of any resident of this state under the age of fourteen
years may, upon petition to the district court of the district in which the
petitioner resides and upon filing the notice required with proof of
publication, if no sufficient cause is shown to the contrary, have the
<name> of his child or ward <changed> or established by order of
the court. When residents under the age of fourteen years petition the
district court for a <name> <change>, the required notice shall
include notice to both legal parents. The order shall be entered at length
upon the record of the court, and a copy of the order, duly certified, shall
be filed in the office of the county clerk of the county in which the person
resides. The county clerk shall record the same in a record book to be kept
by him for that purpose. History: Laws 1889, Ch. 3, § 1; C.L. 1897, §
2910; Code 1915,§ 3807; C.S. 1929, § 92-101; Laws 1937, Ch. 162, § 1;
1941 Comp.,§ 25-501; 1953 Comp., § 22-5-1; Laws 1979, Ch. 14, § 1; 1989,
Ch.161, § 1.
New Mexico Statutes 40-8-2.
Before making application to the court for changing or
establishing a name as above provided, the applicant must cause a notice
thereof, stating therein the nature of the application, the time and place,
when and where the same will be made, to be published in the county where
such application is to be made, and where said applicant resides, said
notice to be published at least once each week for two consecutive weeks, in
some newspaper printed in said county, and if there be no newspaper
published in the county where said applicant resides, then said notice shall
be published in a newspaper printed in a county nearest to the residence of
said person, and having a circulation in the county where such person
resides. History: Laws 1889, Ch. 3, § 2; C.L. 1897, § 2911; Code 1915,§
3808; C.S. 1929, § 92-102; 1941 Comp., § 25-502; 1953 Comp., §22-5-2.
New Mexico Statutes 40-8-3.
That the hearing and determination of all proceedings
instituted under the provisions of this chapter, and the final order of the
court therein, shall be had and made at some regular term of the district
court sitting within and for the county wherein said petitioner resides.
History: Laws 1889, Ch. 3, § 3; C.L. 1897, § 2912; Code 1915,§ 3809; C.S.
1929, § 92-103; 1941 Comp., § 25-503; 1953 Comp., §22-5-3.
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