California Code of Civil Procedure TITLE 8 - CHANGE OF NAMES

• Section 1275.
  Applications for change of names must be determined by the Superior Courts.(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 486, Sec. 1.)
• Section 1276.
  (a) All applications for change of names shall be made to the superior court of the county where the person whose name is proposed to be...
• Section 1277.
  (a) (1) If a proceeding for a change of name is commenced by the filing of a petition, except as provided in subdivisions (b), (c), and (e),...
• Section 1277.a.
  (a) (1) If a proceeding for a change of name is commenced by the filing of a petition, except as provided in subdivisions (b), (c), and (e),...
• Section 1277.5.
  (a) (1) If a proceeding for a change of name to conform the petitioner’s name to the petitioner’s gender identity is commenced by the filing of a...
• Section 1278.
  (a) (1) Except as provided in subdivisions (c) and (d), the petition or application shall be heard at the time designated by the court, only if objections...
• Section 1278.a.
  (a) (1) Except as provided in subdivisions (c) and (d), the petition or application shall be heard at the time designated by the court, only if objections...
• Section 1278.5.
  In any proceeding pursuant to this title in which a petition has been filed to change the name of a minor, and both parents, if...
• Section 1279.5.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), (c), (d), or (e), nothing in this title shall be construed to abrogate the common law right of any...
• Section 1279.5.a.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (e) or (f), this title does not abrogate the common law right of a person to change his or her...
• Section 1279.6.
  No person engaged in a trade or business of any kind or in the provision of a service of any kind shall do any of...

Last modified: October 22, 2018