Court Opinion

ID: 6923256
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-23 23:09:22.73415+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:06:51.638975
License: Public Domain

JOHNSON, J.
Appellants’ petitions for dissolution of marriage included requests to restore their maiden names. The trial court decreed dissolution, but erroneously denied the requests for name change.
ORS 107.105(l)(g) is explicit:
"(1) Whenever the court grants a decree of annulment or dissolution of marriage or of separation, it has power further to decree as follows:
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"(g) To change the name of either spouse to a name the spouse held before the marriage. The court must decree a change if it is requested(Emphasis supplied.)
Affirmed as modified. No costs.