My wife and I have a beautiful baby girl and we are already thinking of the next child. We want to adopt and possibly adopt a boy. We would also like to get a child who is a little older since people tend to forget about them. However we have a boy's name that obliviously did not get used and would like to change our adopted child’s name to it. How old is too old to change a name. I know if you get an infant you can change it because they have not began to recognize it yet.
2006-10-31 08:22:01 · 9 answers · asked by Big Daddy R 7 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Other - Pregnancy & Parenting
When you formally adopt a child, regardless of the age, you have an opportunity to change the name in the courtroom. The judge will ask you on the record what name will the child have from that day forward. It is then put on the birth certificate.
I was adopted at seven, and I changed my name then. My adopted brother was Nine.
2006-10-31 08:28:01 · answer #1 · answered by hsp_goddess 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can change their name at the time of adoption regardless of age, or any time thereafter. It may take some time for the child to respond to being called something different than they are used to, but that is a normal process.
I was adopted back in 1957 when birth records were sealed by court order and new birth certificates with the adoptive parents information replaced them. Some people were never told they had been adopted at all.
2006-10-31 09:42:26 · answer #2 · answered by allannela 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Legally you can change it the DAY the adoption is final. My opinion would be that any age between 6-12 would not be right to change the first name at least. The child doesn't understand everything fully, and plus with all the problems I am sure the child faced, taking away his identity may not be a good idea. Over 12 though, a child would realize a new home, and new family and would probably deal better with it. Good Luck!
2006-10-31 08:37:39 · answer #3 · answered by angie_laffin927 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Perhaps change the name but add it at the front of the childs name so his original becomes his middle name. You can explain that its a new name to show that hes having a new life with you and your family.
2006-10-31 08:47:26 · answer #4 · answered by huggz 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that it would depend on the child and their age. It might be upsetting for a child to lose everything familiar even their name. But on the other hand if you are taking them out of a bad situation they may be happy to have a new name. I think it might depend too on where their name came from. Is it all they have left from parents who died, or were they just abandoned and then given a name by some orphanage. You might have to compromise. Maybe you could combine the two names.
2006-10-31 08:30:35 · answer #5 · answered by kat 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Consider doing your adopted child a favor. If you do change his name, let him keep his original perhaps as a middle name. This will give him the sense that he recieved something from his birth mother - that she cared to name him. That's important.
2006-10-31 08:25:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
particular, you are able to substitute an observed new child's call at finalization. For that remember, you are able to substitute a organic and organic new child's call at any time besides! I observed my son by way of foster care while he replaced into 2-a million/2. His given call replaced right into a made up call and replaced into incredibly girly-sounding. My (then) husband and that i desperate to alter our son's call upon finalization of his adoption and commenced calling him by capacity of the recent call as quickly as we delivered him abode with us. He have been in foster care considering the fact that beginning and because his foster kinfolk spoke in basic terms Spanish, they have been no longer able to pronounce his call because it started with an 'sh' sound. They noted as him by capacity of puppy names, like babas and mi hijo, so he did no longer incredibly know his call. If I had favourite then (5 years in the past) what i know now, i do no longer think of i might have replaced my son's call, even nevertheless i in my view love the call we gave him. It would not look to have brought about him any trauma and he says he's happy we replaced it, yet he's in basic terms 7. it incredibly is incredibly as much as you, yet think of of the new child and all s/he's dropping by capacity of being observed (first mom and dad, widespread environment, individuals, kinfolk subculture and background, and doubtless even a language) incredibly than your self.
2016-10-21 01:32:28 · answer #7 · answered by comesana 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well anything older then 1 yr old i think that would just be wrong to change there name they have gone thru enough changes in there life....
2006-10-31 08:34:44 · answer #8 · answered by juicy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You can change it now~
2006-10-31 08:25:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋