Case Name: In the Matter of the Marriage of Gabriel Lucas URI, Appellant, and Madonna URI, Respondent
Court: Oregon Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Oregon
Decision Date: 1991-09-04
Citations: 108 Or. App. 613
Docket Number: 89-1124-D-1; CA A62838
Parties: In the Matter of the Marriage of Gabriel Lucas URI, Appellant, and Madonna URI, Respondent.
Judges: Before Warren, Presiding Judge, and Riggs and Edmonds, Judges.
Reporter: Oregon Reports, Court of Appeals
Volume: 108
Pages: 613–616

Head Matter:
On respondent’s petition for reconsideration filed March 13 and on appellant’s petition for reconsideration filed April 24;
reconsideration allowed on respondent’s petition; former opinion (105 Or App 442, 805 P2d 136) modified and adhered to as modified; appellant’s petition for reconsideration denied September 4,
appellant’s petition for reconsideration filed on opinion on reconsideration denied November 27,
petition for review denied December 17, 1991 (312 Or 528)
In the Matter of the Marriage of Gabriel Lucas URI, Appellant, and Madonna URI, Respondent.
(89-1124-D-1; CA A62838)
816 P2d 708
Claudette L. Yost, Medford, for respondent’s petition.
Don W. Leach, Canyonville, for appellant’s petition.
Before Warren, Presiding Judge, and Riggs and Edmonds, Judges.
RIGGS, J.
Warren, P. J., dissenting.

Opinion:
RIGGS, J.
Mother has filed a petition for review, which we treat as a petition for reconsideration. ORAP 9.15. It is granted. In URI and URI, 105 Or App 442, 805 P2d 136 (1991), we modified the trial court's judgment to delete the children's name change. We modify our former decision to affirm the trial court's change of the children's name.
Mother presented evidence that changing the children's surname from Te Ta Ma Truth Foundation's group name of URI to the parental surname of Cash would be in their best interests. Mother's witness, a counselor with extensive experience with cult organizations, testified that the Te Ta Ma Truth Foundation has the characteristics of a destructive cult organization and that the unitary name change is one of the techniques used by such groups to deprive individuals of their personal identity and characteristics, to break down their existing family relationships and to control the thought and movement of cult members. Mother testified that the children were treated as belonging to the group as a whole and were not allowed to have individual parent-child relationships with her or father. We find that the children and other members have been isolated from the rest of the world and have been psychologically manipulated and controlled. Changing the children's surname to Cash, which is their father's original surname and the name that their mother now uses, will allow them to have the same surname as their custodial parent and will help them to re-establish connections with immediate and extended family members. It will also allow them to normalize their lives and to avoid any stigma that might attach to the URI group name.
Reconsideration allowed on respondent's petition; former opinion modified to allow the change of children's surname from URI to Cash and adhered to as modified; appellant's petition for reconsideration denied. No costs allowed.