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I had a friend. His wife had a 14-year-old daughter from her previous marriage. My friend loved the hell out of her and was her father in all but biology. The daughter indicated that she wanted to take my friend’s last name. In order to do that they had to get the bio dad’s approval. He refused. It wound up going to court. The judge indicated that he was not inclined to grant name change petitions for minors but would allow the matter to proceed before he made a judgment.The bio dad claimed that he loved his daughter, and she meant a lot to him and was a part of his family. This despite the fact that she never was invited to family events and felt excluded every time she was at his home. The lawyer for the girl asked a few questions about his other children from his second marriage, their birthdays, etc. establishing that she was older than all of them, as well as a few more designed to lull him. Then he asked, “How old did you say your oldest child is?” to which he replied, “He’s twelve,” the age of his son from his second (and current) marriage.He asked the question a few more times in a slightly different way and got the same answer each time. The bio dad answered every question about his oldest as if it was his son and not his daughter. The bio dad never caught on that he was torpedoing his case. In his mind she just didn’t count. My friend said the lawyer for the bio dad had his face in his hands as the questions continued. In short order, the judge approved the motion to make the name change.

It is possible that Disney would appear to object to the petitioner’s petition to change their name, and based on that objection the judge would deny the change of name. A judge might well refuse to allow the change of name even if Disney did not appear to object, on the general grounds that a judge may refuse a name change if the change of name is undertaken for an “improper purpose” or if the judge concludes that the new name would lead to “confusion” or “administrative inconvenience”.There are, however, thousands of people in the US whose last name is “Mouse” (although the Germanic “Maus” and “Mauser” variants are more common), and any one of them could name their child “Mickey” with impunity; while a court has to approve a name change, the name chosen by a parent when applying for a birth certificate generally cannot be rejected in most US jurisdictions unless it cannot be reproduced on the equipment used to print birth certificates (e.g. it contains characters not normally found in names, is too long, or has other serious defects). I find it exceedingly unlikely that there is not at least one, indeed likely quite several, people in the US today whose name, from birth, is and always has been, “Mickey Mouse”, or at least Michael Mouse or Michelle Mouse, both forms that can be shortened to Mickey. It’s hard to be sure because people so routinely use “Michael Mouse” as a fake name on job and credit applications and so there’s a ton of fake data in personfind databases for this name and its common variants.Indeed, given the large clutter of fake/bad data there is in PII databases (credit reports, etc.) for the name “Mickey Mouse”, it’s likely an exceedingly bad idea to change your name to that.

No, but it would be a hell of a lot more sensible to just petition the court for a legal name change. It’s not hard to do.You don’t have to give any reason for wanting to change your name. You just have to go through the legalities of it and then get new documents with your new legal name.