Court Opinion

ID: 9914867
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2024-01-03 16:03:25.849113+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:14:59.268491
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DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
                              FOURTH DISTRICT

         IN RE: THE NAME CHANGE OF RAKIM SALAM ALI

                           No. 4D2023-1673

                           [January 3, 2024]

  Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, Palm
Beach County; Cheryl A. Caracuzzo, Judge; L.T. Case No.
502023DR000620 .

   Rakim Salam Ali, Palm Beach Gardens, pro se.

   No appellee.

PER CURIAM.

    The trial court denied Appellant’s petition for a name change based
upon a determination that Appellant verbally “requested” that the court
deny his petition. As the court did not reach the merits of Appellant’s
effort to have his former name restored (the denial of the petition upon
Appellant’s request was akin to a voluntary dismissal), Appellant is not
estopped from filing a new petition for a name change, per section 68.07,
Florida Statutes.

   Affirmed.

MAY, DAMOORGIAN and FORST, JJ., concur.

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   Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.